Spencer Debenport joined Terrana Biosciences in 2023 to lead the company’s molecular biology and screening initiatives.​ 

Spencer’s background and expertise is in plant pathology and molecular assay development, and he has held roles as a scientist, early-stage R&D team lead, national sequencing applications manager, and molecular core lead. Prior to Terrana, Spencer was the Sequencing Applications Manager at Roche where his team developed new NGS workflows for diagnostics customers. He also worked at Indigo Agriculture where he led the early-stage microbial applications R&D team.​ 

Spencer earned his MS and PhD in Plant Pathology from Ohio State University.