William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor, Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University
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Ralph Dean, PhD is a William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Plant Pathology at North Carolina State University. His work is focuses on the mechanisms regulating fungal phytopathogenesis, primarily in Magnaporthe oeyzae, the causal agent of rice blast disease. Areas of emphasis include signal pathways, effector proteins, transcription networks, comparative genomics and proteomics. He is the founder and first director of the Center for Integrated Fungal Research (CIFR).