Provost Stefan Catsicas and Dean Pierre Magistretti announced the appointment of Distinguished Professor Nina Fedoroff as Acting Director of the Plant Stress Genomics Center. Professor Fedoroff is a 2006 National Medal of Science laureate. She recently completed her term as the President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and has just returned from Vancouver, Canada where she presided over the Association’s 2012 annual meeting. She currently serves as the Chair of the AAAS Board of Directors. According to the Association’s media department, a quote from her Presidential address was a “top tweet” during the annual meeting. Check it out. Professor Fedoroff is a world-renowned geneticist and molecular biologist and has done fundamental research on the molecular biology of plant transposons and on the mechanisms plants use to adapt to stressful environments.
