Dr. Claude M. Fauquet Director ILTAB Donald Danforth Plant Science Center 975 N. Warson Road St. Louis, MO 63132 Phone: 314-587-1241 Dr. Claude Fauquet is Director of ILTAB (International Laboratory for Tropical Agricultural Biotechnology), Member and Principal Investigator at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri. He is Adjunct Professor at the University of Missouri - Columbia and Member of the Graduate Faculty at the University of Missouri – St. Louis. He received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from University Louis Pasteur in Strasburg, France in 1974. Prior to co-founding the ILTAB program at The Scripps Research Institute with Dr. Roger N. Beachy in 1991, Dr. Fauquet worked for nineteen years as a plant virologist for ORSTOM (now IRD), a French public research institute dedicated to helping developing countries, and was stationed at a French research center in Ivory Coast, West Africa for fourteen of those years. He currently leads his laboratory in research projects concerning cassava genetic transformation, promoter studies, gene silencing and molecular plant virology of geminiviruses. Dr. Fauquet is also co-founder and Co-Chair of the Global Cassava Partnership for Genetic Improvement, a network whose goal is to enhance scientific and financial investment in cassava throughout the world. He was Secretary of the ICTV (International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses) for 18 years and continues his involvement in the classification and nomenclature of viruses. Dr. Fauquet has published more than 200 papers in scientific peer-reviewed journals, organized many scientific meetings and participated in more than 200 meetings, symposia, congresses, etc. since 1972. He is a fellow of the AAAS and a member of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences.