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[Principal Staff] [Consultant] [Visiting Scientists] [Biometrics Specialist]
[Research Associates and Assistants] [Specialists] [Technicians] [Workers]
[Trainees] [Office Personnel] [Secretaries]


Principal Staff

  Michael Peters (m.peters-ciat@cgiar.org), Forage Germplasm Specialist and Project Manager, Tropical Grasses and Legumes
  Federico Holmann (f.holmann@cgiar.org), Agricultural Economist and Livestock Specialist
  John Miles (j.miles@cgiar.org), Forage Breeder
  Idupulapati Rao (i.rao@cgiar.org), Plant Nutritionist/Physiologist and Latin America Coordinator of the TSBF Institute
  Werner Stür (w.stur@cgiar.org), Forage Agronomist (Vientiane, Lao PDR)

Consultant

  Peter Wenzl, CAMBIA, Canberra, Australia

Visiting Scientists

  Ulises Castro, Colegio de Postgraduados, Chapingo, Mexico
  Sergio Luis Mejía Kerguelen, Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
  Alejandro Pabón, Universidad Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil
  Tomoko Sakai, Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV), JICA, Japan

Biometrics Specialist

  Gerardo Ramírez (g.ramirez@cgiar.org)

Research Associates and Assistants

  Patricia Ávila (p.avila@cgiar.org), Forage Quality
  Heraldo Cruz Flores, Regional Evaluation (Yorito, Honduras)
  Clark Sydney Davies Salmeron, Regional Evaluation (San Dionisio, Nicaragua)
  Luis Horacio Franco (l.franco@cgiar.org), Germplasm
  Manuel Arturo Franco (a.franco@cgiar.org), Data Base
  Oscar Hernández (contract by GTZ Honduras)
  Phonepaseuth Phengsavanh (p.phengsavanh@cgiar.org), Feeding Systems (Asia)
  Camilo Plazas (cplazas@villavicencio.cetcol.net.co), Regional Evaluation (Llanos)
  Martín Rodríguez (m.e.rodriguez@cgiar.org), Phytopathology
  Guillermo Sotelo (g.sotelo@cgiar.org), Entomology

Specialists

  Aristipo Betancourt (a.betancourt@cgiar.org), Genetics
  Ramiro García, Plant Nutrition
  Belisario Hincapié (b.hincapie@cgiar.org), Germplasm

Technicians

  Alvaro Baena, Plant Pathology
  Ximena Patricia Bonilla, Phytopathology
  Gilberto Córdoba, Entomology
  Fernando Feijoo, Plant Nutrition
  Humberto Franco, Seed Unit (Palmira)
  William Mera, Entomology (Caquetá)
  Jacqueline Muñoz Perea, Seed Unit (Palmira)
  Gustavo Ospinal, Forage Quality
  José Reinaldo Pareja, Entomology
  Guillermo Pérez, Seed Unit (Atenas, Costa Rica)
  Claudia Ximena Rojas Castillo, Plant Nutrition
  Gustavo Segura, Plant Pathology
  Daniel Vergara, Genetics (Villavicencio)
  Darío H. Viveros, Phytopathology

Workers

 

José Nelson Amaya, Genetics

  José Ever Aragón, Forage Evaluation (Quilichao)
  Crisanto Arce, Seed Unit (Atenas, Costa Rica)
  Néstor Carabalí, Forage Evaluation (Quilichao)
  Benilda García, Forage Quality
  Pedro José Gutiérrez, Genetics (Popayán)
  Isled Yomar Hernández Gutiérrez, Plant Nutrition
  Jesús Lasso, Forage Germplasm
  Luis Alberto López, Plant Nutrition
  Héctor Fabio Mona Alvarez, Plant Nutrition
  José Manuel Mora, Costa Rica
  Fanny Isabel Mueces, Genetics
  Maria Eugenia Recio, Plant Nutrition
  Orlando Trujillo Filigrana, Forage Quality
  Hernando Viveros Roso, Forage Evaluation (Quilichao)
  Harold Orlando Zúñiga, Forage Evaluation (Quilichao)

Trainees

  Juan Carlos Calderón, Student in Practice, Base de Datos (with Systems Unit)
  Caroline Dohmeyer, University of Hohenheim
  César Aurelio Plata, Student in Practice, Universidad Javeriana, Base de Datos (with Systems Unit)
  Marie Schloen, Student in Practice, University of Hohenheim (SoFT, literature revision Canavalia brasiliensis)

Office Personnel

  Jenny Milena Burbano (j.burbano@cgiar.org)

Secretaries

  Beatriz Arenas Salazar (b.arenas@cgiar.org)
  Julia Gómez Quintero (j.gomez@cgiar.org)
  Marielos Salazar (msalazar@iica.ac.cr) (Costa Rica)




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