Elizabeth Ellen Hood | |
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| Born | 1952 (age 72–73) |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, Washington University in St. Louis |
| Awards | AAAS Fellow |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Pioneer Hi Bred, National Science Foundation, Arkansas State University |
| Thesis | Ti plasmid region responsible for the hyper-virulent phenotype of Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain A281 (1985) |
| Doctoral advisors | Mary-Dell Chilton and Robert Fraley |
Elizabeth E. Hood is a plant geneticist and the Lipscomb Distinguished Professor of Agriculture at Arkansas State University. [1] In 2018, she was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [2]
Elizabeth Hood was born in 1952. [3] She attended the University of Oklahoma earning a BA in sociology in 1974. In her masters she switched to botany, studying the biochemistry of a cyanobacteria ( Anabaena variabilis ). [3] After completing her masters, she moved to Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied the natural plant genetic engineering capabilities of Agrobacterium tumefaciens as a PhD student, and studied with Mary-Dell Chilton and Robert Fraley.
From 1988 to 1994, she was an assistant professor of biology at Utah State University. After that, she worked at Pioneer Hi-Bred, and later at ProdiGene. In 2003, she became a program manager at the National Science Foundation. [4] In 2004, she was hired at Arkansas State University. [1] In 2008, she was appointed the Lipscomb Distinguished Professor of Agriculture. [5]
During her time at Washington University in St. Louis, Elizabeth Hood created the Agrobacterium strain EHA101, which is widely used in plant transformation. [6] [7] Her research at Arkansas State University focuses on using plants as factories to produce large quantities of enzymes [8] and studying how plants construct cell walls. [9] She is the Arkansas representative for the Genomes to Fields public-private consortium working to enable to accurate phenotypic prediction in corn/maize across the different environments found in thirty different US states. [10]
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