Curriculum Vitae

Education & Professional Experience

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Matthew Blair

Research Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture, Human听and Natural Sciences

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PROGRAM AREAS

Plant Breeder, Molecular Geneticist

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TEACHING

Introduction to Plant Breeding 鈥� undergraduate level course (spring 2014)
Advanced Plant Breeding 鈥� graduate level course (expected, spring 2015)听

PUBLICATIONS

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AWARDS & HONORS

Erasmus Fund (European Union) Fellowship for Visiting Scholars. France and Sweden 2012

CIAT鈥檚 list of most productive scientists for refereed publications: 1st place 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Bean Improvement Cooperative - Distinguished Achievement Award, 2007

Invited Speaker at Conferences: Bean Improvement Cooperative (USA) - BIC 2005, 2007; Congresso Nacional de Feij茫o (Brazil) - CONAFE 2008; Crop Science Society of America (USA) - CSSA, 2009; International Crop Legume Genetics and Genomics - ICLGG 2003, 2008, 2010; International Life Sciences Institute 鈥� ILSI (Colombia and USA) 2005,2006,2007, 2012; Plant and Animal Genome (USA) - PAG 2002, 2007

Invited Lectures; Cargill Series at Colorado State Univ. (Fort Collins, USA) 2009; Chinese Academy of Agri. Science (Beijing, China) 2008, 2009; Cornell Plant Breeding Seminar Series (Ithaca, USA) 2006; 2008; Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agr铆cola, Centro de Arroz e Feij茫o (EMBRAPA-CNPAF) (Goi芒nia, Brazil) 2004 and 2006.

STUDENTS - Where are they now? 听
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EDUCATION

PhD in Plant Breeding, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
MS in Agronomy, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR
BS in Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Date joined staff:听 June, 2013

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