
Position Title
Distinguished Professor
Position Title
Distinguished Professor
- Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
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