October 25, 2015

SON recognize Hafez, Baum and Thomas as Fellows

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The Society of Nematologists (SON) recognized Saad Hafez, Thomas Baum and W. Kelly Thomas as Fellows of the SON for their contributions to the study of nematodes during its 2015 annual meeting.

Saad Hafez is a professor of nematolotgy at the University of Idaho Parma Research and Extension Center and helped establish the University’s nematode diagnostics lab. He is a former president of the SON.

Thomas Baum has been the chairman of department of plant pathology and microbology at Iowa State University since 2005.

W. Kelly Thomas directs the University of New Hampshire’s Hubbard Center for Genome Studies and the chairman of the University’s molecular, cellular and biomedical sciences department.