Assistant Professor
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
Dr. Frank is an Assistant Professor at Cornell’s School of Integrative Plant Science. Her lab uses grafting to identify long-distance signals that impact molecular, morphological, and physiological plant traits that are of agronomic importance. Dr. Frank has received multiple awards that support the development of innovative new approaches for sustainable crop production. She is a recipient of the FFAR New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Award (2022), an NSF CAREER Award (2020), and an Innovation and Tool Development Award from the USB (2018). Dr. Frank is also a co-PI/Research Lead for the NSF STC Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS).
Margaret Frank received her BA in Biology from Barnard College in 2007 and her Ph.D. in Plant Biology from Cornell University in 2014. She was an NSF PGRP Postdoctoral Fellow at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center from 2014-2018 before she moved to Cornell University in 2018.
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM EDT