Brian Fristensky

Brian Fristensky attended the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University, where he completed his A.B. in Biology in 1980. After graduation he worked as a technician with Dr. Ray Wu. where he authored the Cornell Sequence Analysis Package, one of the first packages of sequence programs. In 1982 he joined the lab of Lee Hadwiger at Washington State University, in one of the first attempts to clone plant defense genes. In 1987 he was awarded his Ph.D. in Genetics and Cell Biology. On a postdoctoral fellowship from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, he worked on light­ regu­lated gene expression with Dr. William F. Thompson at North Carolina State University. In 1990 he joined the University of Manitoba Plant Science Department, where he is currently an Associate Professor. Publications topics include disease resistance in plants, genetic engineering of disease resistance, machine learning and bioinformatics software.