
Position Title
Distinguished Professor
Position Title
Distinguished Professor
Unit
Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Genome Center
Unit
Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Genome Center
226 Robbins Hall
Bio
Grad Group Affiliations
- Integrative Genetics and Genomics
- Plant Biology
- Plant Pathology
Specialties / Focus
- Cell and Developmental Biology
- Genomics, Proteomics and Metabolomics
- Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Genomics
Labs
- Ronald Laboratory https://cropgeneticsinnovation.ucdavis.edu/
Honors and Awards
- Honorary Scientist at the National Institute of Ag Biotechnology, Korea; John Simon Guggenheim Fellow
- 2008 USDA National Research Initiative Discovery Award
- 2012 Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair Award
- selected as one of the 100 most creative people in business by Fast Company Magazine.
- The Tech Award 2012 for innovative use of technology to benefit humanity
- 2012 Louis Malassis International Scientific Prize for Agriculture and Food
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Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2019
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ASPB Leadership in Science Public Service Award, 2019
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Honorary Doctorate, Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2019
Professional Societies
- American Society of Plant Biologists American Phytopathological Society International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions American Association for the Advancement of Science
Degrees
- 1982 B.A. Biology Reed College, Oregon
- 1984 M.A. Biology Stanford University
- 1985 M.S. Uppsala University, Sweden
- 1990 Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Publications
For publication list, please see https://cropgeneticsinnovation.ucdavis.edu/publications-0