Rebecca Grumet is a Professor in the Department of Horticulture and the Graduate Program in Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology at Michigan State University. Her research deals with vegetable genetics and genomics, with a primary emphasis on cucurbit flower and fruit development and disease resistance, and she is the project director for the USDA-SCRI CucCAP project, CucCAP: Leveraging applied genomics to increase disease resistance in cucurbit crops. Professor Grumet has a B.S. degree from Cornell University, 1978, M.S., 1980, and Ph.D., 1985, from Michigan State University, and was the recipient of a North Carolina Biotechnology Postdoctoral Fellowship in Plant Molecular Biology at Duke University, 1985–1987.  She achieved a W.J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award at Michigan State University and is a Fellow of the American Society for Horticultural Science.