IANR Faculty Spotlight: James Schnable

August 22nd, 2019

NFHC member- Dr. James Schnable has been featured in this IANR Faculty spotlight.

What is your position at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln?

I'm an associate professor in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture. I work with the Quantitative Life Sciences Initiative, the Center for Plant Science Innovation, and the Nebraska Food for Health Center.

What drew you to the University of Nebraska—Lincoln? 

I enjoy figuring out how plants perceive and respond to their environments, particularly because that logic and reasoning is hardwired into them at a genetic level. The people in Lincoln, from the administration to my colleagues, the undergraduates with research projects in my lab, my new neighbors and the people I meet in the grocery store, they all, on a fundamental level, get and understand why research in those crops is important to all of us. I've lived in a lot of places in the USA and so far, in my experience, that level of understanding and support is unique to Lincoln, Nebraska.

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