2026 APS Fellow Feature Part III: Dr. Boris Vinatzer

In this episode, Dr. Boris Vinatzer, 2026 APS Fellow and Professor of Microbial Genetics and Genomics in the School of Plant and Environmental Sciences at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia joins host Matt Kasson to discuss his career working on plant biotechnology and plant pathogenic bacteria with an emphasis on Pseudomonas syringae and Rolstonia solanacearum. He also talks about his work on ice nucleation activity in bacteria and fungi and genome-based approaches for plant disease diagnostics including multi-locus sequence analysis for species level identification of plant pathogenic bacteria.

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Dr. Boris Vinatzer’s Virginia Tech faculty webpage: https://spes.vt.edu/faculty-staff/faculty/vinatzer-boris.html

Dr. Boris Vinatzer’s Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=STcUUYcAAAAJ&hl=en

Dr. Boris Vinatzer’s 2026 APS Fellow Profile: https://www.apsnet.org/members/give-awards/Pages/awardees.aspx

This episode is produced by Association Briefings.