Forrest G. Chumley is Associate Director for Research at the Kansas State University Research and Extension and Professor of Plant Pathology at Kansas State University. Chumley received his B.A. in Liberal Arts from Johns Hopkins University (1969) and was awarded the Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of California, Berkeley (1980).

Chumley is a member and USAID appointee of the Indo-U.S. Joint Working Group on Agricultural Biotechnology (Dehli, India, and Washington, D.C.). He is USAID Scientific Liaison Officer to the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Hyderbad, India. In addition, he is a member and current chair of the Board of Directors for the International Grain Sorghum and Millet Research Support Program, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the Kansas State University Research Foundation.

Chumley’s recent publications include such scientific articles as “The Genome of the Natural Genetic Engineer, Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58 (Science, 2001), “Crop Protection Industry: Re-tooling for a New Tomorrow” (Pesticide Outlook, 2000), and “A Telomeric Avirulence Gene Determines Efficacy for Rice Blast Resistance Gene Pi-ta” (The Plant Cell, 2000). He is an author of “A Workshop Report on Wheat Genome Sequencing: International Genome Research on Wheat Consortium” (Genetics 2004).
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