Marty Dickman's Biography

Marty Dickman, Professor/Director, Texas A&M University

Received his B.S. degree in Horticulture and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Plant Pathology/Biochemistry from the University of Hawaii. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Biological Chemistry at Washington State University, he joined the faculty at the University of Nebraska in 1987 as an assistant professor, was promoted to full professor in 1997 and was named the Charles Bessey Professor of Plant Pathology. In December 2005, Dr. Dickman was appointed Director of the Institute for Plant Genomics and Biotechnology at Texas A&M University where he is the Christine Richardson Professor in Agriculture. He is also the Director of the Borlaug Genomics and Bioinformatics Center. He has numerous editorial responsibilities including Senior Editor for GM Crops, Frontiers in Plant Biotechnology and Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology among others. His research centers on the molecular and mechanistic bases of fungal plant disease development and plant stress responses with particular emphasis on the regulation of programmed cell death. Dr. Dickman is a Fellow of the American Phytopathological Society (APS). He is also the recipient of E.C. Stakman Award-2011 for excellence in plant pathology. He was recently named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).