Blake Meyers

Blake Meyers is the Director of the UC Davis Genome Center and a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences. Before joining UC Davis in 2024, he was a Principal Investigator at the Danforth Plant Science Center and a Curators’ Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri. He also held the Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg professorship at the University of Delaware from 2002 to 2015. Blake is a Fellow of AAAS (2012) and ASPB (2017) and was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2022. He has been the Editor-in-Chief of The Plant Cell since 2020. His research focuses on the roles of small RNAs, particularly phasiRNAs, in plant reproductive biology and their potential use in hybrid crop production.