Caitilyn Allen (born 1957 in Göttingen, Germany)[1] is an American plant pathologist, specializing in phytobacteriology (i.e., bacterial diseases of plants). She is an internationally recognized expert on bacterial wilt[2] and has received several awards for her work.[3]

Education and career

Caitilyn Allen grew up in the USA's Midwest.[2] She studied from 1975 to 1978 at Swarthmore College and then worked on a farm growing organic vegetables, but the venture was unprofitable.[3] She studied for the academic year 1980–1981 at the University of Maine at Orono, where she graduated with a B.S. in botany. In 1987 she graduated with a Ph.D. in plant pathology from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.[2] Her Ph.D. thesis is entitled Evolution of a gene for pathogenicity; endo-pectate lyase.[4]

As a postdoc, Allen was from 1986 to 1988 a research associate in Lyon at the CNRS Laboratoire de génétique moléculaire microbienne. (She is fluent in French.)[3] From 1988 to 1992 she held a postdoc position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM), where she began research on bacterial wilt. Subsequently, she pursued such studies for next three decades.[2] In 1992 she became a faculty member in UWM's department of plant pathology. She began as an assistant professor, was promoted to associate professor, became a full professor, and is now the department's Ethel and O. N. Allen Professor.[3] (She is unrelated to Ethel and O. N. Allen.)[2][5]

Allen became in 1995 the founding director of UWM's Women In Science and Engineering Residential Learning Community (called the WISE Dorm)[2] and for her directorship received in 2001 the Women Engineers Professional/Academic Network National Women In Engineering Program Award.[3] She has received several teaching awards. In 2008 she received from the French government the Palmes Académiques for her contribution to French education and culture. In 2009 she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[3] In 2020 the American Society for Microbiology gave her the Alice C. Evans Award.[6]

Selected publications

Articles

Books

  • Prior, Philippe; Allen, C.; Elphinstone, John G., eds. (1998). Bacterial Wilt Disease: Molecular and Ecological Aspects. Berlin: Springer Verlag; 447 pages{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link); Prior, Philippe; Allen, Caitilyn; Elphinstone, John (29 June 2013). 2013 pbk reprint of 1998 1st edition. ISBN 978-3-642-08361-7.
  • Leong, Sally A.; Allen, C.; Triplett, Eric W., eds. (2002). Biology of Plant-Microbe Interactions. Vol. 3. St. Paul: APS Press. ISBN 978-0965462525; 360 pages{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  • Allen, C.; Prior, P.; Hayward, Alan Christopher, eds. (2005). Bacterial Wilt: The Disease and the Ralston solanacearum Species Complex. St. Paul: APS Press. ISBN 0-89054-329-1; 508 pages. (APS Press bestseller for 2005){{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

References

  1. ↑ "Caitilyn Allen". Fellows, American Phytopathological Society.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Caitilyn Allen, Ph.D." Biographies, American Society for Microbiology.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Caitilyn Allen, Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. September 2018. (with extensive publication list)
  4. ↑ "Caitilyn Allen". Microtree (Microbiology, academic tree.org).
  5. ↑ "O. N. Allen Professorship". Freedman Lab, University of Wisconsin.
  6. ↑ "Caitilyn Allen honored with ASM's Alice C. Evans Award for Advancement of Women". ECALS, University of Wisconsin-Madison. September 25, 2019.
  • "Caitilyn Allen (homepage)". Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • "Caitilyn Allen". Center for Interdisciplinary French Studies, A French Center of Excellence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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