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Sandra Anagnostakis
attended
college at the University of California at Riverside (BA 1961).
In graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin, she
worked with C. J. Alexopoulos in mycology (MA 1966). She
completed her Doctor of Agronomy degree at Justus-Liebig
University in Giessen, West Germany in 1985, working with
Professor J. Kranz.
She has worked at The
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station since 1966, first in
the Genetics Department, and now in Plant Pathology and Ecology.
Her work has included genetic studies of various fungi (corn
smut disease, Dutch elm disease, and chestnut blight), and
methods for detection of extracellular enzymes produced by
fungi, studies of composting, and production of haploids of
higher plants using anther culture techniques. She has been
working on chestnut blight disease (caused by Cryphonectria
parasitica) since 1968.
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