The 2016 Japan Prize

• Field:
  Biological Production and Biological Environment
• Achievement:
  Contribution to modern crop breeding through research on development of molecular genetic analysis
• Lecture:
  about modern crop breeding through research on development of molecular genetic analysis

Awards

1998	Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Award
1999	Martin Gibbs Medal of the American Society of Plant Biologists
2004	Wolf Prize in Agriculture
2005	Kumho International Science Award Korea
2008	Rank Prize

Recognition

1995	Member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
2009	Foreign Member, Royal Society of London

Academic Experience

1976	Colorado State University, B.S.
1979	University of California, Davis, Ph.D.

Academic Positions

1976-1979	Research Assistant, University of California, Davis
1979-1981	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Davis
1981-1985	Assistant Professor, Department of Horticulture and Plant Genetics Engineering Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
1985-1991	Associate Professor, Department of Plant Breeding & Biometry, Cornell University
1991-2010	Professor, Department of Plant Breeding & Biometry, Cornell University
2010-present	Professor Emeritus, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University

Current Position

• Cornell University
  College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
  School of Integrative Plant Science
  Emerson Hall

Publications, Thesis

• Paterson, A.H., Lander, E.S., Hewitt, J.D., Peterson, S., Lincoln, S.E., Tanksley, S.D., Resolution of quantitative traits into Mendelian factors by using a complete RFLP linkage map. Nature. 335:721-726. 1988
• Martin, G.B., Brommonschenkel, S.H., Chunwongse, J., Frary, A., Ganal, M.W., Spivey, R., Wu, T., Earle, E.D., Tanksley, S.D., Map-based cloning of a protein kinase gene conferring disease resistance in tomato. Science. 262:1432-1436. 1993
• Tanksley, S. D. and McCouch, S. R., Seed banks and molecular maps: unlocking genetic potential from the wild. Science. 277:1063-1066. 1997
• Frary, A., Nesbitt, T.C., Grandillo, S., Knaap, E., Cong, B., Lin, J., Meller, J., Elber, R., Alpert, K.B., Tanksley, S.D., fw2.2: A quantitative trait locus key to the evolution of tomato fruit size. Science, 289:85-22. 2000
• Tanksley, S., Mapping polygenes. Annual Review of Genetics, vol.27, pp205-233. 1993