Speaker Biography

Nancy P. Keller

Nancy Keller is a Professor in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology and the Department of Bacteriology at University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Her interest in fungal secondary metabolism dates back to her days in the Peace Corps in Lesotho, Africa, from first-hand knowledge of molded and toxic food supplies. Her current interests range from elucidation of virulence traits of human and plant pathogens to genome mining for fungal natural products. She received her PhD from the Department of Plant Pathology at Cornell University in 1990 and was then employed as a post-doctoral research scientist with the USDA, followed by employment as an Assistant and Associate Professor in the Plant Pathology Department at Texas A&M University before moving to the Plant Pathology Department at the University of Wisconsin.

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