"Member, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center beginning 2014 Adjunct Professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis Associate of the Missouri Botanical Garden E. Desmond Lee and Family Professor of Botanical Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1998-2013 Associate Professor, Harvard University, 1993-1998 Harvard University, Ph.D. in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, 1983 Awards: Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Academia Nacional de Ciencias, Argentina, Academy of Science of St. Louis Chancellor’s Award for Research and Creativity, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 2005 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2004-2005 Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, 2003"

" Elizabeth has spent her career studying cereal crops and their wild relatives in the grass family, plants on which all of civilization depends. Her unique contribution has been to forge connections between scientists in the front lines of biodiversity research and those breaking new ground in genetic and genomic studies."