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Eliot Herman's Laboratory








Eliot M Herman, Ph.D.
Member and Principal Investigator

Eliot Herman

Dr. Herman has a BA (1973) in Biology from the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara, A MA (1975) from UCSB working with Dr. Beatrice M Sweeny on circadian rhythms in dinoflagellates. He obtained his Ph.D. from UC San Diego working with Dr. Maarten Chrispeels. He was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Max Delbruck at Caltech (1980-1) and Dr. Leland Shannon at UC Riverside (1981-3). He was an Assistant Research Biochemist at UC Riverside (1984). He was then employed by the USDA/ARS from 1985-2008 located at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (1985-2001) and at Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (2001-8). He is presently a member of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. Dr. Herman is an Adjunct Professor of Plant Science at the University of Missouri, Columbia (plantsci.missouri.edu/faculty/herman).

Dr. Herman has been a visiting scientist at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot Israel as an ARS Fellow working with Dr. Gad Galili (1994-5) and as Japanese Society for Promotion of Science fellow at Tokyo Metropolitan University with Dr.Tako Minimikawa (1997). He served as Program Director of the NSF Cellular Signaling and Organization programs (1996-7) and as a Science Fellow at the US Embassy in Stockholm (2005). He has served as an editorial board member of Plant Physiology and Planta (1994-date) and as Associate Editor of Journal of Experimental Botany (1996-date). He was awarded the USDA's highest award, the 2004 Plow Award from the US Secretary of Agriculture for his work on food allergens. He was promoted to Supergrade in the USDA in 2008. He is a National Fellow of the Explorers Club and serves on the board of the Explorers Club St. Louis Chapter that is a partner of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (http://www.explorers-stl.com/our_links.html).


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