Our Team

Darcey Rodewald,
Client Services & Sample Receiving Manager

B.S. in History, University of Wisconsin, River Falls. Darcey joined BioDiagnostics in 2001. Her responsibilities include inside sales, sample receiving, and customer service. Darcey has been serving the seed industry in a customer service capacity for over 20 years. In her current role, Darcey works on building lasting customer relations with clients and introducing the customer to streamlining tools and test packages.

Customer service contact: (715) 629-1931

Farhad Ghavami,
Chief Science Officer

BSc. in Agronomy and Plant Breeding, University of Tehran; MSc in Plant Breeding, Isfahan University of Technology; Ph.D. in Plant Molecular Genetics; University of Tehran. Farhad has over ten years of post-Ph.D. experience working in plant molecular biology, plant genomics, transcriptomics, quantitative genetics and also molecular breeding. He was an assistant professor at North Dakota State University, and a senior research associate at the University of Minnesota and managed the molecular breeding and genomics technology department at EBDI prior to his current position.