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Provide decision support systems regarding specific biotic threat related agricultural problems through improved models, efficient parametrization of biological and physiological requirements of the target biotic threat. These include: 

  • Developing efficient data & analytical model  that provides current and future global individual risk maps for prioritized biotic threats of target crops/locations.
  • Develop interoperable workflows for multi-peril biotic threat assessment of host specific or geography specific assemblages of biotic threats.

GEMS Services Supported

Lab Members

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Current Senay Lab members

  • Senait Senay, Ph.D., Principal Investigator

Past Senay Lab members

  • Yuan Chai, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral fellow; Current placement: Lead at the GEMS Informatics Center for the GEMS Sensing program. 
  • Bryan Runk, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral fellow; Current placement: co-director at the InSTePP center & PI at GEMS Informatics Center
  • Rafael Carlesso Aita, M.S. Entomology; Current placement: University of Minnesota