Cornell Hop Research Team
Larry Smart
Professor, SIPS – Horticulture section
Larry’s University Profile Page
L. Smart is the Hop Research Team project lead. He leads cultivar trials located at Cornell Agritech and leads hop breeding efforts. Visit Larry’s lab website
Lynn Sosnoskie
Assistant Professor, SIPS – Horticulture Section
Lynn’s University Profile Page
Sosnoskie’s research focuses on the management of weeds in multiple crops, including hops. In addition to conducting herbicide safety screens, she is evaluating the performance and safety of novel weed control technology, such as electric weeders, precision sprayers, and autonomous robotic cultivators. She is currently running IR-4 trials to evaluate novel herbicides for their use in hop production. Visit Lynn’s lab website.
Frank Hay
Senior Extension Associate, School of Integrative Plant Science Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section Cornell AgriTech
Graduated with Ph.D from Lincoln University, New Zealand in 1989 and worked with AgResearch (NZ) (1990-1996), Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, Australia (1997) and University of Tasmania, Australia (1998-2014) before joining Cornell University NYSAES Geneva in 2014.
Chris Gerling
Senior Extension Associate, Agritech Food Science
Chris Gerling | CALS (cornell.edu)
Gerling manages the Cornell Craft Beverage Analysis Laboratory.
Nathan Lewis
Ph.D. Student, Larry Smart Lab
Nathan Lewis is a Ph.D. Student in horticulture. He is interested in understanding the mechanisms of disease resistance and flowering regulation in hop. This also includes breeding and evaluating high-yielding, disease-resistant hop cultivars suited for New York’s climate.
