Christine A. Wilson
Assistant Professor
Agricultural Economics
591A Krannert
494-4299
wilson1@purdue.edu

B.S. Kansas State University 1994
M.S. Kansas State University 1996
Ph.D. Kansas State University 2001
Last Position: Extension Economist, Kansas State University

My research interests include exploring agribusiness management and marketing and finance issues. My current work examines issues affecting risk, methods for managing risk, and factors affecting product demand and prices. Specific projects involve examining the risks and the dynamics of food and agribusiness firm stock returns, market returns, and farm enterprise returns; exploring the purchase of publicly traded agribusiness firm stock as a vertical integration value added investment; and examining the factors affecting meat demand.

I teach the undergraduate courses Marketing Management of Agricultural Business (AGEC 426) and Accounting for Farm Business Planning and Control (AGEC 311) and the graduate course Agricultural Finance (AGEC 600). I also teach a graduate course in Risk Analysis and Management (AGEC permanent number not yet determined) in our Executive MBA program and serve as an instructor in the executive development programs sponsored by the Center for Food and Agricultural Business.

I enjoy the fundamental Midwestern activities-sports, music, movies, and the outdoors.

Brad Lee
Assistant Professor
Agronomy
3-361 Lilly Hall
496-6884
bdlee@purdue.edu

B.S. Oklahoma State University 1992
M.S. Oklahoma State University 1994
Ph.D. University of California, Riverside 1999
Last Position: Consultant to the CALFED Bay-Delta Program, Sacramento, CA

My research interests are soil and landscape processes related to land use and environmental quality. I am a member of the Purdue Extension Land Use Team and I teach Soil and Land Use (AGRY 585).

Bruce Applegate
Assistant Professor
Food Science
1160 Food Science Building
496-7920
applegate@foodsci.purdue.edu

B.S. University of Tennessee 1987
Ph. D. University of Tennessee 1997
Last Position: Research Assistant Professor, U. of
T ennessee

My research interests include detection of viable foodborne pathogens using bateriophage, automated extraction of nucleic acids from various matrices, enumeration of microorganisms using quantitative PCR, the use of bioreporters in bioelectronics, metabolic engineering, detection of problematic microorganisms in industrial environments, construction of recombinant bacterial strains to rapidly evaluate antimicrobial products, and microbial ecology.

I teach Food Biotechnology (FS 591B).

Trent Sutton
Assistant Professor
Forestry and Natural Resources
202 Forestry Building
496-6266
tsutton@fnr.purdue.edu

B.S. Michigan State University 1991
M.S. Michigan Technological University 1993
Ph. D. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1997

Last Position: Assistant Professor, Lake Superior State University

My research focuses primarily on understanding the role of biotic and abiotic mechanisms in regulating and structuring freshwater fish populations. In particular, I employ an autecological approach, exploring the importance of habitat and food resource availability on the early life history dynamics of both lotic- and lentic-dwelling fishes. An improved understanding of the factors influencing critical life stages of fish populations will unearth basic knowledge regarding these interactions, and this information will provide fisheries managers with the foundation necessary to make better informed, ecologically sound decisions.

I teach Great Lakes of the World (FNR 232), Aquatic Sampling Techniques (FNR 351), Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Practicum (FNR 371), Fisheries Science and Management (FNR 545), Fish Ecology (FNR 546), and Fisheries Population Dynamics and Modeling (FNR 698). I also serve as academic advisor of the Purdue student subunit of the American Fisheries Society.

During my free time, I enjoy spending time with my wife Michelle; training my dogs Scout, Sadie, and Seka; and hunting waterfowl and upland birds.

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