David Lightfoot
Professor
Plant Soil and Agricultural Systems
Southern Illinois University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Lightfoot is PhD in Genetics and Professor for Biotechnology and Genomics at SIUC. He is Head of the Genomic Science Facility at SIUC. He is an Illinois Humanities Commission Road Scholar. He won Illinois Soybean Researcher of the year twice. He has published 126 peer reviewed articles, one book, sixteen book chapters, and thousands of DNA sequences. He has been awarded patent rights to 4 inventions. He has trained 7 PhD and 31 MS students.
Research Interest
Genomic Science, Plant Soil and Agricultural Systems
