Young Lab at the University of Minnesota Extended Biography for Nevin Young

Nevin Young is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota with joint appointments in the Department of Plant Pathology and the Department of Plant Biology. Previously, Dr. Young was director of the Plant Molecular Genetics Institute at Minnesota. His laboratory is located in the Cargill Building for Microbial and Plant Genomics in St. Paul. Dr. Young received his B.A. at Indiana University in 1977 and Ph.D. at Yale University in 1984, followed by a NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship at Cornell University. He is author or co-author of more than 200 scientific publications, including 80 refereed publications and 17 book chapters. His research highlights include the first mapping of plant disease resistance genes using DNA markers, the first comparative genetic mapping of plant developmental genes, and the first bioinformatic analysis of plant disease resistance genes. In 2003, Dr. Young became lead principal investigator of the NSF initiative to sequence the genome of the model legume, Medicago truncatula. Dr. Young has served on the scientific advisory board for the National Center for Genome Resources, the editorial boards of Molecular Breeding and Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, as well as several USDA Plant Genome grant review panels and United Nations research coordination groups. He is currently co-chair of the International Medicago truncatula Genome Sequencing Initiative and a member of the scientific advisory committees for the European Union Grain Legumes Integrated Project and the U.S. Legume Information System

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