Dr. Oscar Riera-Lizarazu is an Associate Professor and Associate Department Head for Graduate Programs and the Robert E. Basye Chair in Rose Genetics in the Dept. of Horticultural Sciences at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. Dr. Riera-Lizarazu leads the Rose Genetics & Breeding program and works to understand the genetic basis of traits in landscape roses and the uses genomics-based tools for germplasm improvement.
Dr. Riera-Lizarazu has >25 years of national and international research experience in plant genetics, cytogenetics, and breeding. Before his assignment at Texas A&M, Dr. Riera-Lizarazu held senior-level positions at Dow AgroSciences and Corteva Agriscience. Before working in the private sector, Dr. Riera-Lizarazu served in director-level positions at the Intl. Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), India, and as a tenured faculty in the Dept. of Crop and Soil Science at Oregon State University, USA.
Oscar Riera-Lizarazu received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Plant Science from Utah State University and a Ph.D. in Plant Breeding and Genetics from the University of Minnesota, USA.