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Roger Beachy, founding president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, a non-profit research institute, St. Louis, MO, earned his Ph.D. at Michigan State Univ. with post-doctoral positions at the Univ. of AZ and at Cornell Univ., NY. He previously held academic positions at Washington Univ., St. Louis, and The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, where he was co-founder of the Inter. Laboratory for Tropical Agricultural Biotechnology. A member of the U.S. Nat. Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Acad. of Microbiology, and the American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, he has received the Wolf Prize in Agriculture, the D. Robert Hoagland Award from the Society of Plant Biologists and Ruth Allen Award from the American Phytopathological Society among others. Beachy serves as Chair-Elect of the AAAS Section on Agriculture, Food and Renewable Resources and is Pres. of the International Assoc. of Plant Biotechnology, among others. He is recognized for his work in molecular virology and gene expression in plants, and for pioneering research in developing transgenic plants that are resistant to virus infection. His research includes: studies of mechanisms of transgenic virus resistance including, in rice and sweet potato; characterizing functional activities of transcription factors; and developing a chemical gene switching system for use in plants.
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