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Dr. Roger Beachy is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and recipient of the 2001 Wolf Prize in agriculture for his contributions to the development of plant genetic engineering and plant biology technologies. He was the founding President of the Donald Danforth Plant Sciences Center and, in 2009, was appointed by President Obama to be Director of the National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA), where he served until 2011.