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Elizabeth (Betsy) Pierson

Elizabeth (Betsy) Pierson


Professor
Plant Microbe Interactions
Department of Horticultural Sciences  |  Texas A&M University
2133 TAMU  |  College Station, TX  77843-2133
PH: 979-862-1307  |   FAX: 979-845-0627
eapierson@tamu.edu
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Betsy Pierson

Dr. Elizabeth (Betsy) Pierson received an Honors B.S. degree in Biology from Indiana University and a Ph.D. degree in Botany from Washington State University. After post-doctoral work with the US Department of Agriculture, she joined the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Arizona as a Research Assistant Professor in 1990 and became a Research Associate Professor in 1996. Dr. Pierson joined the Department of Horticultural Sciences at Texas A&M University as an Associate Professor in 2009. Dr. Pierson is a member of the graduate faculty of Texas A&M University. She also is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology and a member of the intercollegiate faculty of Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences (MEPS).

Dr. Pierson’s areas of research include plant-microbe interactions, biological control, and sustainable agriculture. She also conducts research related to zebra chip disease of potato, microbe-insect interactions, and terrestrial plant ecology.  She teaches the undergraduate course Garden Science and the graduate course Plant-associated Microorganisms, which is available to students in three different graduate programs.  Dr. Pierson is active in graduate education, currently serving as a member of the Horticultural Sciences Graduate Program Committee and the MEPS admissions committee and as the advisor for the Horticulture Graduate Council. She also serves as a chair or member of graduate research committees and provides undergraduate laboratory research experience.

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