Virginia Walbot

Virginia Walbot born in 1946, is an American agriculturalist and botanist who is a professor^[1] in the Department of Biology at Stanford University. She was a member of a team that developed a new sweet corn.^[2] She co-authored an article for corn farming in the 4th issue, volume 26 of Plant Reproduction titled "Maize Male sterile 8 (Ms8), a putative β-1,3-galactosyltransferase, modulates cell division, expansion, and differentiation during early maize anther development."

Life

Virginia Walbot first began working with corn when she used to help grow and sell it on her family's farm in Southern California. Later in the 1970's she began her interest in corn when she met Barbara McClintock, who also worked with corn. That is when Walbot began visiting McClintock's lab in Cold Spring Harbor and when she became devoted to the studies of the sex life of corn.

In 1967, Virginia Walbot received a BA degree in Biology at Stanford University. In 1969-1972, attended Yale to work on embryogenesis to receive a M. Phil and PH.D. Dr. Walbot attended the University of Georgia to postdoctoral work. She became a faculty Member at Washington University in St. Louis. Later Dr. Walbot returned to Stanford as a professor in the Department of Biology.

Dr. Walbot first worked with maize while working with Ed Coe in the University of Missouri.

Dr. Walbot participates in societies including the American Society for Cell Biology, AAAS, AIBS, Genetics Society, and International Society for Plant Molecular Biology^[3]

Published two books, Developmental Biology in 1987 and The Maize Handbook in 1993.^[4]

Virginia Walbot has published a total of 126 journal articles.^[5]

Administrative Appointments

^[6]*Elected to the Steering Committee of the Faculty Senate, Stanford (2009 - 2011)

• Elected to Faculty Senate, Stanford (2009 - 2011)
• Elected to Faculty Senate, Stanford (1999 - 2001)
• Committee on Committees, Stanford (2000 - 2001)
• Committee on Research, Stanford (2003 - 2005)

Honors & Awards

• Cooresponding Member, Mexican Academy of Sciences (2004)
• Hageman Lectureship, Kansas State University (2001)
• Joan V. Wood Lectureship, Indiana University (1999)
• Explorer Award, National Geographic Society (1998)
• Eppley Award, Eppley Foundation (1993)
• Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation (1987)
• Belk Award, Miami University of Ohio (1985)
• Fellow, American Assn. Advancement of Science (1981)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, NIH (1972-1975)
• Predoctoral fellowship, NSF (1969-1972)^[7]

References

1. "Virginia Walbot". Stanford School of Medicine.
2. [Wang, Dongxue, David S. Skibbe, and Virginia Walbot. "Maize Male Sterile 8 (Ms8), A Putative Β-1,3-Galactosyltransferase, Modulates Cell Division, Expansion, And Differentiation During Early Maize Anther Development." Plant Reproduction 26.4 (2013): 329-338. Academic Search Premier. Web. 1 Feb. 2014.]
3. "Hageman Lecturer". http://www.k-state.edu/bmb/seminars/hageman/2001-walbot.html. External link in |website= (help);
4. "Curriculum Vitae". http://web.stanford.edu/~walbot/cv/cv_walbot.pdf. External link in |website= (help);
5. "Stanford School of Medicine". Stanford. Retrieved 2014-12-16.
6. "Virginia Walbot". Stanford School of Medicine.
7. "Virginia Walbot". Stanford School of Medicine.

External links

• The Walbot Lab at Stanford University
• Lisa M. Krieger (4 September 2011). "Stanford scientist studies the sex life of corn". San Jose Mercury News.