Erin Irish
Associate Professor, University of Iowa

Address: Department of Biological Sciences, 143 Biology
Iowa City, IA 52246
Daytime phone: (319) 335-2582
E-mail: erin-irish@uiowa.edu

Brief biography: Represents the University of Iowa on the Advisory Board. She is a corn geneticist; she grows and hand-pollinates approximately a half-acre of corn each summer for her experiments. Her work addresses a basic question in biology about how plants develop. A native of Ohio, she has lived in Iowa since 1990.

She and her husband have begun to restore a 40-acre pasture in Cedar County to the oak savannah that it once was by removing invasive species of plants and introducing locally collected seeds of native species.

She has a bachelor's degree in biology from Hiram College in Ohio and a Ph.D. from Indiana University with post-doctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University. Results of her research, funded by the National Science Foundation and the USDA, have appeared in numerous scientific journals and presented at conferences throughout the United States.