Short Biography

Gary Muehlbauer
Updated June 2012

Gary J. Muehlbauer is a Professor and Department Head in the Department of Plant Biology at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Muehlbauer also holds the Endowed Chair of Molecular Genetics Applied to Crop Improvement in the Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been on the faculty at the University of Minnesota for fifteen years working on crop genomics. Currently, he is the co-director of the USDA-NIFA funded Triticeae Coordinated Agricultural Project