Erin McGuire is the Associate Director of the Horticulture Innovation Lab. In this role, she supports and is a primary point of contact for all Horticulture Innovation Lab projects.
As the program's leader for innovation and technology, Michael Reid identifies and develops new technologies that address constraints to horticultural production for smallholder farmers.
Julio López is a plant protection specialist and leads classes in integrated pest management and entomology as a professor at the Panamerican Agricultural School, Zamorano, in Honduras.
Jim Nienhuis is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and also serves as a principal investigator on Horticulture Innovation Lab projects focused on vegetable production in Central Ame
Bielinski Santos was previously a principal investigator on a Horticulture Innovation Lab project, while employed by the University of Florida as an associate professor.
Karen LeGrand is the principal investigator of the Building and Scaling Safe Vegetable Value Chains in Cambodia project supported by the Horticulture Innovation Lab.
Brent Sipes is a professor at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and a plant pathologist working primarily in the management of soil-borne diseases, especially nematodes.
Steven Fennimore is a UC Cooperative Extension weed specialist in the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences and based at the USDA Agricultural Research Station in Salinas, California.
