Affiliate Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Professor, Crop Sciences
Associate Professor, Statistics
Associate Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Associate Professor, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies

Recent Publications

Burns, M. J., Della Coletta, R., Fernandes, S. B., Bohn, M. O., Lipka, A. E., & Hirsch, C. N. (2026). Optimizing population simulations to accurately parallel empirical data for digital breeding. Crop Science, 66(1), Article e70247. https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.70247

Mullens, A., Zhong, T., Lipka, A., Balint-Kurti, P., & Jamann, T. (2026). Vascular Pathogenicity of Xanthomonas vasicola pv. vasculorum in Maize Is Modulated by Tissue-Specific Host Resistance. Phytopathology, 116(2), 285-297. https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-05-25-0164-R

Vath, R. L., Fernandes, S. B., Monier, B., Głowacka, K., Walter, J., Lipka, A. E., Ferguson, J., Bernacchi, C. J., Pederson, T., & Kromdijk, J. (2026). High-Throughput Screen of NPQ in Sorghum Shows Highly Polygenic Architecture of Photoprotection. Plant-Environment Interactions, 7(1), Article e70114. https://doi.org/10.1002/pei3.70114

Widener-Richards, S. J., Nabukalu, P., Kong, W., Paterson, A. H., Cox, S., Sacks, E. J., & Lipka, A. E. (2026). Do we need to account for genetic architecture when applying genomic prediction to perennialized sorghum? Euphytica, 222(3), Article 41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-026-03693-x

Bertolini, E., Rice, B. R., Braud, M., Yang, J., Hake, S., Strable, J., Lipka, A. E., & Eveland, A. L. (2025). Regulatory variation controlling architectural pleiotropy in maize. Nature communications, 16(1), Article 2140. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56884-w

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