Nicholas Francis is a PhD Student in Botany at Oregon State Unversity’s Department of Botany and Plant Pathology. Nicholas holds a BS in Botany and Plant Pathology from OSU and BA in Asian Studies from Occidental College. Prior to developing a passion for Botany and Agricultural Biotechnology, Nicholas served in the US Army. Upon re-entering civilian life, Nicholas led a succesfull career in business, focused on management and executive management of light commercial HVAC-R. Nicholas’s reseach focuses on understanding and manipulating plant pluripotency in plant tissue culture environments using maize cell lines.

francini at oregonstate dot edu