Steve Tanksley




NSG Home Who we are Where we are Current Job Openings		Dr. Steve Tanksley CEO/Chief Scientific Officer NSG, Professor Dept Plant Breeding & Genetics, Dept Plant Biology, Cornell University


	Dr. Tanksley’s research has focused on the development of molecular maps of plant species and the applications of those maps to identifying and cloning genes underlying natural variation. He has also been a proponent of the use of wild species germplasm conservation and utilization for plant improvement. Dr. Tanksley received a bachelor's degree in agronomy from Colorado State University and a Ph.D. in genetics from the University of California - Davis. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1995 and has been the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Award, the Martin Gibbs Medal, the Kuhmo Korea Award, and the Wolfe Prize. In 2006 he co-founded Nature Source Genetics –a computational genomics company headquartered in Ithaca, NY. For more information see: http://www.plantbio.cornell.edu/ Relevant publications: Tanksley SD and Fulton TM (2006) Dissecting Quantitative Trait Variation - Examples from the tomato. Euphytica (in press). Fulton, T. M., P. Bucheli, E. Voirol, J. Lopez, V. Petiard, and S. D. Tanksley (2002) Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) Affecting Sugars, Organic Acids and Other Biochemical Properties Possibly Contributing to Flavor, Identified in Four Advanced Backcross Populations of tomato. Euphytica 127:163-177 Xiao, Jinhua, Silvana Grandillo, Sang Nag Aho, Susan R. McCouch, Steven D. Tanksley, Jiming Li, and Longping Yuan (1996) Genes from wild rice improve yield. Scientific Correspondence - Nature 384:223-224. Tanksley, Steven D. and Susan R. McCouch (1997) Seed banks and molecular maps: unlocking genetic potential from the wild. Science 277:1063-1066. Tanksley, S.D. and J.C. Nelson (1996) Advanced backcross QTL analysis: a method for the simultaneous discovery and transfer of valuable QTLs from unadapted germplasm into elite breeding lines. Theor. Appl. Genet. 92:191-203.