At KU Med Center Dr. J. Kinsey was director and he worked on genetics of amino acid metabolism and later identified the transposon "Tad" in a Neurospora crassa strain from Adiopodoume, Ivory Coast. At UMKC, Dr. Michael Plamann who worked on cytoskeleton dynamics was the director. Since 2014, Dr. John Leslie of the Kansas State University Department of Plant Pathology has been Director.
Dr. J. Kinsey was in charge at KU Med Center and focused on genetics of amino acid metabolism before discovering the "Tad" transposon in a Neurospora crassa strain from Adiopodoume, Ivory Coast. At UMKC, Dr. Michael Plamann led the department, concentrating on cytoskeleton dynamics. Since 2014, Dr. John Leslie of Kansas State University's Department of Plant Pathology has been Director.