The Soybean Menace: Cyst Nematodes
Thomas Baum
Thursday, 25 Oct 2007 at 7:00 pm – Gallery, Memorial Union
Thomas Baum is Professor and Chair of the Department of Plant Pathology at Iowa State, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1995. His research focuses on the compatible interaction of cyst nematodes with their hosts, with the long-range goal of engineering novel plant resistances. Baum has served as interim director of the Center for Plant Responses to Environmental Stresses (CPRES). He was the recipient of the 2006 Ruth Allen Award of the American Phytopathological Society for research that changed a field of plant pathology. He received an M.S. in agricultural sciences from the Technical University of Munich in 1989 and a Ph.D. in plant pathology from Clemson University in 1993. Sigma Xi Lecture.Cosponsored By:
- Sigma Xi
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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