Background
Beachy, Roger N. was born on October 4, 1944 in Plain City, Ohio, United States.
biologist Botanist university professor
Beachy, Roger N. was born on October 4, 1944 in Plain City, Ohio, United States.
He then completed his Bachelor in biology from Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana. Then, he completed his Doctor of Philosophy in plant pathology from Michigan State University. After completing his Doctor of Philosophy, he became a member of the Biology Department at Washington University in Saint Louis from 1978 to 1991, where he was Professor and Director of the Center for Plant Science and Biotechnology.
Post-doctoral, department agricultural biochemistry University Arizona, Tucson, 1973—1976. Research associate, National Institutes of Health Fellow, department plant pathology Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1973-1976, research associate, United States Plant, Soil and Nutrition Laboratory, 1976-1978. Assistant professor, biology Washington University, St. Louis, 1978—1983, associate professor biology, 1983—1985, professor biology, director, Center for Plant Science and Biotechnology, 1986—1991, professor, department biology, since 1999.
Member, head division plant biology Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, 1991—1999, professor, Scripps Family chair in cell biology, 1991—1999, co-director, International Laboratory for Tropical Agricultural Biotechnology, 1991—1999. Founding president & director Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, since 1999. Director, National Institute of Food and Agriculture (formally known as Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service) United States Department Agriculture, since 2009.
Adjunct professor, department biology Peking University, Beijing, 1992—2005. Adjunct professor, department plant pathology University California, Riverside, 1997—1999. Board member NIDUS Center for Scientific Enterprise, since 1999.
Member governing board International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics, Hyderbad, India, 2001—2007. Chairman governor's advisory council for plant biotechnology State of Missouri, since 2005. Member Malaysia's International Advisory Panel on Biotechnology Development, since 2005, Oub.
Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture, since 2008. Advisory board member Tropical Plant Biology, 2007—2008. Consultant in plant biotechnology for several companies.
Invited lecturer in field.
Board advisory World Agricultural Forum, St. Louis, since 1999. Ad-hoc member board directors St. Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association, since 2002. Board trustee St. Louis Science Center, 2003—2010, St. Louis Symphony, since 2005.
Board directors Enterprise-Rent-a-Car, St. Louis, since 2007. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Microbiology, Academy of Sciences St. Louis(board trustee since 2000). Member NAS(councilor, 2003, member editorial board Proceedings since 2003), American Phytopathological Society (Ruth Allen award, 1990), International Association for Plant Biotechnology (president since 2006), American Society Plant Physiologists, American Society Virologists, American Society Biological Chemists, International Society Plant Molecular Biology, American Society Plant Biologists (Dennis Robert Hoagland award, 2000), American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, American Society Virology.
Foreign fellow National Academy of Sciences (India), Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi.
Divorced; children: Kathryn C., Kyle A.