Canada Excellence Research Chair in Global Food Security and Associate Director of the Global Institute of Food Security
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada
Leon V. Kochian joined the faculty at the University of Saskatchewan in August, 2016 as the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Global Food Security and Associate Director of the Global Institute of Food Security. He also is a Professor in the Department of Plant Science and the Department of Soil Science. Previous to coming to the University of Saskatchewan, he was the Director of the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health on the Cornell University campus. He also was Professor of Plant Biology and also Soil and Crop Sciences at Cornell University, as well as an Adjunct Scientist at Boyce Thompson Institute He received his Bachelor’s degree in Botany at the University of California at Berkeley in 1978, and his Ph.D. in Plant Physiology at the University of California at Davis in 1984. In 1985 he took a position as a Plant Physiologist with USDA-ARS at the U. S. Plant, Soil and Nutrition Laboratory, Cornell University. He became Director of the U.S. Plant, Soil and Nutrition Laboratory in 1997, and Director of the newly established USDA-ARS Robert Holley Center on the Cornell campus in 2007. Dr. Kochian’s research deals with the molecular biology, physiology and genetics of mineral ion transport and root biology processes as they relate to mineral nutrient acquisition, plant response to abiotic environmental stresses, and the role of root architecture in nutrient acquisition efficiency. Dr. Kochian’s publications have been 26,731times and has an H index of 93. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as well as an American Society of Plant Biologists Fellow, and is a member of the ARS Hall of Fame. Dr. Kochian was also recently named to Thomson Reuter’s list of 2015’s “Most Influential Scientific Minds”, a citation analysis identifying the scientists who have made the most significant global impact within their respective field of study over the past 11 years.
(CS-21-5) Regulatory Networks Governing Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Maize and Sorghum
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
2:05 PM – 2:25 PM EDT