Education

• 1962-1966...Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, B.A. with Honors in Chemistry
• 1966-1967...Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, Graduate student in Biology
• 1967-1972...Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ph.D. in Biology
• 1969-1970...Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, Visiting graduate fellow, Department of Plant Genetics

Positions

• 1973-1975...Postdoctoral Fellow (N.I.H.), Biology Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
• 1975-present...Professor, Department of Biology, University of California, Los Angeles.

Professional Activities

• Member: American Society of Plant Physiologists, Awards Committees, 1986; 1991-94; Elected Member of Executive Committee, 1992-96
• International Society for Plant Molecular Biology
• Elected Member of Board of Directors, 1993-97
• Organizer and Chair, Plant Molecular Biology Gordon Conference, 1985
• Editorial Boards: Plant Physiology, 1984-88; Planta, 1990-present
• U.S.D.A. Competitive Grants Program, Panel on Plant Growth and Development, 1987- 1989
• N.I.H. Molecular Cytology Study Section, 1989-1993; N.I.H. Reviewers Reserve, 1993-1997
• Project Director, Biotechnology Training Grant in Plant Molecular Biology, 1991-1993

Professor Elaine Tobin is a faculty member of the UCLA programs in the Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences called UCLA ACCESS .

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