Rate My Professor Patrick Schnable

Schnable directs an interdisciplinary research program in genetics, molecular biology, genomics, bioinformatics, and phenomics, with a focus on maize biology and the development of genomic tools and resources. He is the author of more than 250 peer-reviewed publications, cited approximately 35,000 times, achieving an h-index of 94. Key publications include 'The B73 maize genome: complexity, diversity, and dynamics' (Science, 2009), 'Progress toward understanding heterosis in crop plants' (Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2013), 'The rf2 nuclear restorer gene of male-sterile T-cytoplasm maize' (Science, 1996), and 'Genome-wide discovery and characterization of maize long non-coding RNAs' (Genome Biology, 2014). His innovations are reflected in multiple patents, such as those for nuclear restorer genes and QTLs regulating maize ear productivity traits. Schnable has co-founded companies including Data2Bio LLC and serves on scientific advisory boards. Honors include Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2010), Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2025), Chang Jiang Scholar at China Agricultural University (2009), and Iowa State University's Outstanding Achievement in Research Award (2010). He has chaired the Maize Genetics Executive Committee and the American Society of Plant Biologists' Science Policy Committee, and co-leads the Genomes to Fields Initiative while serving as PI of the Agricultural Genomes to Phenomes Initiative.