Administrative Report
Faculty Affiliates
More than 200 Iowa State faculty are affiliated with the nine centers and three task forces of the Plant Sciences Institute. These faculty members represent more than 30 departments and six colleges. Funding to the Plant Sciences Institute has been used to hire top-notch new faculty and to support their facilities, as well facilities such as the state-of-the-art proteomics facility located in the Roy J. Carver Co-Laboratory. To date, the institute has been partners in the hire of 35 faculty in the Departments of Agronomy; Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering; Genetics, Development and Cell Biology; Plant Pathology; Chemistry; Computer Science; Horticulture; Chemical Engineering; Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.
Finances
Plant Sciences Institute affiliated faculty generated over $22 million in external funds in fiscal year 2006. External funds were largely derived from federal agencies such as the United States Department of Agriculture, the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. State of Iowa funding, which was $200,000 in FY99, increased to $5M in FY07.
