David Cook, III

Dr. David E. Cook grew up in outside of Columbus, Ohio. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from Virginia Tech in the Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences department. Dr. Cook received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Plant Pathology department. His graduate research focused on functional genomics in soybean for the locus conferring resistance to the major soybean cyst nematode pest. Dr. Cook moved to the Netherlands to conduct postgraduate research at Wageningen University in the Laboratory of Phytopathology, working on epigenetics and genome evolution in fungal plant pathogens. Dr. Cook's graduate studies were funded in part by a Graduate Student Fellowship from the American Phytopathological Society (APS), and his postdoctoral research was funded by fellowships from the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), and Human Frontiers in Science Program (HFSP).