Joe Chen

Jialiang (Joe) Chen grew up in Guangzhou, the southern part of China. Joe received his Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural & Consumer Economics with a concentration in Agribusiness, Market, Management, and Crop Science and a minor in Horticulture from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Joe also earned a Master’s degree in Integrative Plant Science from Cornell University, specializing in Plant Breeding and Genetics. Joe expressed his passion for agronomy through working in winter wheat and maize breeding and field management during his internships and working as a research assistant under the supervision of Dr. Desiree in Prof. Sacks’ lab, where he aimed to develop a local hybrid for flooding tolerance on Miscanthus as a biofuel crop by performing DNA extraction, PCR, and data collections in field trials.