Michael Gore

Michael Gore is an associate professor of molecular breeding and genetics for nutritional quality and an international professor of plant breeding and genetics at Cornell University, where he is a member of the faculty in the Plant Breeding and Genetics Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science. Michael is also a faculty fellow in the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and Cornell Institute for Food Systems. His lab uses quantitative genetic and genomic approaches in combination with analytical chemistry and remote sensing technologies to determine the genetic basis of complex trait variation in plants. For the WEST project, he will lead the development and application of geospatial image analysis approaches for phenotyping canopy temperature of a sorghum diversity panel.

Michael earned his master’s degree in crop and soil environmental sciences from Virginia Tech and then went on to earn his doctorate in plant breeding from Cornell University. He has authored many peer-reviewed publications and received numerous awards, including the American Society of Plant Biologists Early Career Award and the National Association of Plant Breeders Early Career Scientist Award. Gore is also a member another ARPA-E-funded project: Transportation Energy Resource from Renewable Agriculture - Mobile Energy-Crop Phenotyping Platform (TERRA-MEPP).