PeopleAboutLecturerThe MS Plant Breeding Program, offers plant breeding courses to distance M.S. students and on compus student to fulfil M.S. or Ph.D course requirements. Dr. Mahama teaching courses as substitute when needed, has developed and will be teaching a data analytics course for plant breeding. In colaboration with other faculty he is developing and will teach an new Organic Plant Breeding course. Dr. Mahama is passionate about pedagogy and is leading a project on identifying and assembling plant breeding core concepts to facilitate appropriate sequencing of courses, identifying gaps in concepts to ensure smooth transitioning from course to course, and to better serve the talent needs of stakeholders employing graduates from the program. He is also interested in collaborative research in soybean genetics and breeding. Area of Expertise: Plant BreedingContactaamahama@iastate.edu(515) 294-41752009 Agronomy 716 Farm House LnAmesIA50011-1051 Education: B. Sc., University of Ghana, Legon-Accra, Crop Science, 1986, M.S. University of Nebraska, Plant Breeding and Genetics, 1993, Ph.D., Iowa State University, Plant Breeding and Genetics, 1998,CV: mahama_cv-2018.pdf PeopleSupervisor(s): Dr. Kendall R Lamkey
