Director and Professor
Iowa State University
Pat Schnable is a distinguished professor at Iowa State University where he holds an endowed chair in genetics and is an endowed scholar of agricultural entrepreneurship. He directs ISU's Plant Sciences Institute that is fostering collaborations among plant scientists, engineers and computational scientists. Schnable received his BS from Cornell University and his PhD from Iowa State University; he conducted post-doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute in Köln, Germany. Schnable’s wide-ranging investigations of the maize genome have resulted in >180 peer-reviewed publications and an h-index of 72. Schnable is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science past chair of the Maize Genetics Executive Committee and past chair of the American Society of Plant Biology’s Science Policy Committee. He is also the co-lead of the Genomes to Fields Initiative. Schnable has co-founded several startup companies and serves on several scientific advisory boards.
Thursday, July 30, 2020
4:02 PM – 4:17 PM EDT