Committees
The Plant Resilience Institute (PRI) has faculty-led committees for the following PRI programs, events, and resources:
PRI offers travel grants of up to $500 each to support PRI trainees in presenting their research at conferences worldwide. View more information on PRI Travel Grants.
Committee members:
PRI regularly seeks proposals for innovative, collaborative research projects focused on plant resilience. These high-risk, high-reward initiatives explore novel ideas that are not currently funded or part of existing programs. View more information on the PRI Seed Grant program.
Committee members:
- David Lowry (chair)
- Derek Denney, PRI postdoctoral fellow and former PRI Seed Grant awardee
- Sarah Lebeis
- Hatem Rouached
- Anuradha Singh, research associate and former PRI Seed Grant awardee
PRI has funded six postdoctoral fellows to support their innovative and integrative research programs on plant resilience.
Cohort #2 (2024) committee members:
Cohort #1 (2021) committee members:
- David Lowry (chair)
- Brad Day, former PRI faculty member
- Sarah Lebeis
- Hatem Rouached
- William Wetzel, former PRI faculty member
PRI holds an annual retreat designed to bring PRI members together, foster collaboration, and ensure that all voices contribute to shaping the future of our institute. View more information about the retreats and other PRI events.
2026 committee members:
- Derek Denney, PRI postdoctoral fellow
- Andrea Glassmire
- Kathe Rivera-Zuluaga, research associate
2024 committee members:
- Megan DeLoose, graduate student
- Joanna Feehan, PRI postdoctoral fellow
- Karine Prado, research specialist
- Sue Rhee
- Tri Tran, research associate
PRI maintains shared equipment available in PRI labs. View a list of available equipment.
Committee members:
- David Lowry (chair)
- Gregg Howe
- Emily Josephs
Former committee members:
The following individuals served on the hiring committees for previous external PRI faculty member searches.
2023-2024 PRI faculty search committee members:
- David Lowry (chair)
- Megan DeLoose, graduate student
- Danielle Hoffmann, research associate
- Hatem Rouached
- Christine Sprunger
- Scott Stark, external representative from FOR
- Robert VanBuren
2021-2023 PRI director search committee members:
- Gregg Howe (co-chair)
- Robert VanBuren (co-chair)
- Nathan Havko, research associate
- Sasha Kravchenko, external representative from PSM
- Sarah Lebeis
- Carolyn Malmstrom, external representative from PLB
- Febri Susanto, graduate student
- William Wetzel, former PRI faculty member
