Ruth Dill-Macky Science Protecting Plant Health 2017

Ruth Dill-Macky

Ruth Dill-Macky is a professor and plant pathologist in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Minnesota, United States. She earned her B.Sc. (Hons.) and Ph.D. degrees in botany at The University of Queensland. She worked as a plant pathologist at the Queensland Wheat Research Institute, Toowoomba, from 1984 to 1992 and as a research associate at the USDA-ARS Cereal Rust Laboratory, St. Paul, MN from 1992 to 1994. She joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota in July 1994. Her applied program focuses on the diseases of small grains.