About Caitilyn Allen
Born 1957. Caitilyn Allen is a microbiologist.
Caitilyn Allen (born 1957 in Göttingen, West Germany) is an American plant pathologist, specializing in phytobacteriology (i.e., bacterial diseases of plants). She is an internationally recognized expert on bacterial wilt and has received several awards for her work.
Education and career Caitilyn Allen grew up in the US Midwest.
As a postdoc, Allen was from 1986 to 1988 a research associate in Lyon at the CNRS Laboratoire de génétique moléculaire microbienne. (She is fluent in French.)
Allen became in 1995 the founding director of UW-Madison's Women In Science and Engineering Residential Learning Community (called the WISE Dorm)
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Books (APS Press bestseller for 2005).
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