“Current Directions in Soybean Improvement at UIUC”

Dr. Eliana Monteverde Dominguez,

Wednesday, May 6th, 2026

Agronomy 3140, 3:00 – 4:00 pm

Dr. Eliana Monteverde is an Assistant Professor of Soybean Improvement at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She earned her bachelor’s degree in Biology and her M.Sc. in Genetics from Universidad de la República in Uruguay, and her Ph.D. in Plant Breeding from Cornell University. She has a background in forage grass and rice breeding. Her research at UIUC focuses on soybean breeding and the integration of genomic and phenotypic data to improve cultivar development.