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Blake Meyers, Director of the Genome Center and Distinguished Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, presents “Phased, secondary siRNAs in plant reproduction”.
Blake Meyers is the Director of the UC Davis Genome Center and a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences. Before joining UC Davis in 2024, he was a Principal Investigator at the Danforth Plant Science Center and a Curators’ Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri. He also held the Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg professorship at the University of Delaware from 2002 to 2015. Blake is a Fellow of AAAS (2012) and ASPB (2017) and was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2022. He was the Editor-in-Chief of The Plant Cell from 2020 through 2024. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Chicago, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in genetics from UC Davis. His research focuses on the roles of small RNAs, particularly phasiRNAs, in topics ranging from plant reproductive biology to transgene silencing.
Host: Dr. Christine Diepenbrock (chdiepenbrock@ucdavis.edu)