Oct. 26, 2000

NC State University Names New Head of Department of Botany

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Dr. Margaret E. Daub

Dr. Margaret E. Daub of Raleigh, professor of plant pathology at North Carolina State University, has been named head of NC State's Department of Botany. Chancellor Marye Anne Fox announced Daub's appointment following approval by the NC State Board of Trustees. She was appointed interim department head in 1999, succeeding Dr. Eric Davies, who returned to full-time research and teaching. Her permanent appointment was effective Oct. 1. Daub has been a member of the NC State faculty since 1983, when she joined the Department of Plant Pathology as an assistant professor. She was named an associate professor in 1989 and a full professor in 1993.

Daub earned her bachelor's degree in biology from the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, in 1974, and her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1979. Before coming to NC State, she was a postdoctoral research associate at Michigan State University.

Her research at NC State has focused on the isolation and characterization of genes from plant pathogens that have potential usefulness in the genetic engineering of disease-resistant plants. Her work with two colleagues earned a patent earlier this year. Daub served as chair of the Council of the American Phytopathological Society's publications board from 1997 to 1999, and was editor-in-chief of the journal Phytopathology from 1996 to 1999.

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