Tom Maier

Tom Maier is an Assistant Scientist III and Lab Manager in the Baum lab at Iowa State University. He joined the lab in December 1995, providing technical support for ongoing research projects and managing lab operations. His research focuses on isolating gland cells from plant parasitic nematodes to develop gland cell transcriptomes using next-gen sequencing technologies.

Education: B.S. in Genetics from Iowa State University (1994).

Research interests include identifying novel effector proteins, understanding nematode parasitism mechanisms, and exploring evolutionary origins of plant-parasitic nematodes to devise novel control strategies. Current projects involve transcriptome analysis for functional gene discovery.

No scientific awards, articles, or grants are explicitly listed in the provided text.

Labs/Teams: Active member of the Baum Lab, contributing to nematode research initiatives.