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Cecilia Tamborindeguy
- Professor
- Office:
- HPCT 516
College Station - Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- (979) 321-5788
- Website: https://tamborindeguylab.tamu.edu/
Education
- Undergraduate Education
- Ingenieur Agronome (Agronomist engineer) Institut National Polytechnique – Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Toulouse
- Graduate Education
- M.S. Plant Biosciences, INP-ENSAT, France
- Ph.D. Plant Biosciences, INP-ENSAT, France
Areas of Expertise
- Vector biology
- Molecular biology
Professional Summary
Cecilia Tamborindeguy, Ph.D. is a professor in the Texas A&M University Department of Entomology. Tamborindeguy’s research focuses on the transmission of plant pathogens by insects. She has received over $4 million in external funding from international, federal, and state agencies. Her work was cited more than 2,700 times. Tamborindeguy teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in entomology. She developed a graduate course in plant-insect-microbe interactions. Tamborindeguy has chaired six doctoral committees, co-chaired one doctoral committee, three master’s committees, and served on nine others; two of her Ph.D. students were awarded the prestigious John Henry Comstock Award from the Entomological Society of America. Tamborindeguy serves at the Entomological Society of America, she is an editorial board member for Scientific Reports, she is an associate editor for Insect Molecular Biology and she is a molecular biology subject editor for the Journal of Economic Entomology. She also is the Faculty Mentor of the graduate student organization Aggie Women in Entomology.