Rod A. Wing earned his PhD in Genetics from UC Davis, and completed Postdoctoral Research at Cornell’s NSF Plant Science Center and USDA/UC Berkeley’s Plant Gene Expression Center. His 30-year career in plant science has spanned the US, beginning as an Assistant Professor of Soil & Crop Sciences at Texas A&M, followed by Coker Chair of Genetics & Biochemistry at Clemson University, and Regents Professor and Bud Antle Chair at the University of Arizona’s School of Plant Sciences. Prior to joining KAUST, he led both the Clemson University Genomics Institute and the Arizona Genomics Institute. Wing has been the recipient of numerous international honors and awards.