Meet the Faculty

Mary Schaeffer

Adjunct Associate Professor
Division of Plant Sciences

Phone: 573-884-7873
Fax: 573-884-7850
E-mail: Mary.Schaeffer@ars.usda.gov
Address: 203 Curtis Hall
Web site: Mary Schaeffer at USDA-ARS

Education
B.A., Chemistry, Swarthmore College
Ph.D., Biochemistry, Duke University

Description
Mary Schaeffer (Polacco) is a geneticist with the USDA-ARS and curator of the Maize Genome Database, a web resource served from a campus site. Her research focuses on bioinformatics strategies to manipulate and ‘mine’ information on plant genomes and their functionality, from gene product to whole plant and interspecific. Emphasis is on MaizeDB, but work is collaborative with other national and international resources, including genome specific, germplasm and sequence databases.