Sarah M. Assmann is an American biologist known for her research on plants and signal transduction. She is an elected fellow of the

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Education and career

Assmann undergraduate degree is from

Williams College Williams College is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a col ...

(1980). She earned her Ph.D. from

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in 1986. Following her Ph.D., she was a postdoc at the

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until she joined the faculty at Harvard University in 1987. In 1993 she moved to Pennsylvania State and was promoted to professor in 1997. In 2002, Assmann was named the Waller Professor of Biology at

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. From 2009 until 2010, she served as president of the American Society of Plant Biologists. Starting in 2020, Assmann is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal ''

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''.

Selected publications

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Awards

* Fellow,

(2009)

References

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