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July 7, 2000

Second plant sciences finalist to visit campus

by Teddi Barron

Lee Pratt, research professor of botany and former director of the Center for Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology at the University of Georgia, Athens, is a finalist for the position of director of the Plant Sciences Institute. He will be on campus Aug. 9-11 to meet with various groups of administrators, faculty and students.

Pratt served on the faculty at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., from 1969 until 1979, when he joined the faculty at Georgia. From 1982 to 1986, he was an invited professor at the Laboratory of Plant Physiology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and serves on the Life Sciences Panel for the National Research Council's Associateship Programs.

His research interests include functional genomics and bioinformatics; molecular biology, biochemistry, immunochemistry and photochemistry of phytochrome oriented toward an understanding of the molecular mode of action; and applications of immunochemical techniques to plant-related problems.

Pratt earned his bachelor's (1963) and master's degrees (1964) from Stanford University, California, and his doctorate (1967) from Oregon State University, Corvallis. Additional details are available online at www.iastate.edu/~provost/staff/search/VitaPratt.html



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