报告人简介：
Dr. Elizabeth R. Waters earned her Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Grinnell College, in Grinnell Iowa. She earned her M.S. degree in Botany from North Carolina State University. Dr. Waters earned her PhD degree in Evolutionary Biology from Washington University in St. Louis where she studied under the direction of Dr. Barbara Schaal. After earning her doctorate Dr. Waters conducted post-doctoral research in Biochemistry with Dr. Elizabeth Vierling at The University of Arizona. During her post-doc Dr. Waters started her research on the heat shock proteins and thermotolerance. After her post-doctoral research, Dr. Waters was a Bioinformatics Research Scientist at Diversa Corporation. Dr. Waters was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Biology at San Diego State University in 2002. Dr. Waters is currently a Professor of Biology and the Director of the Evolutionary Biology PhD program at SDSU. Dr. Waters is also an Associate Editor of the journal, Scientific Reports.
