James Carey Schnable is an American geneticist.
He was born in Ames, IA, earned at BA in Biology from Cornell University in 2008 and a PhD in Plant Biology from UC-Berkeley where he was a student of Michael Freeling and published on the functionally distinct subgenomes present within maize. From 2013-2014 he was an NSF postdoctoral fellow at the Danforth Center and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences working with Xianmin Diao. He was hired Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2014 and promoted to Associate Professor at the same institution in 2019.
Schnable’s research interests focus on the evolution, genetics, and phenotypic plasticity of the grasses. At the same time many of his papers involve engineering or computational advances in the field of plant phenotyping. For example, demonstrating procedurally generated corn plants from video games can be used to train neural networks to score the properties of real corn plants in photos. Schnable has also been active in translational research, founding multiple companies focused on bioinformatics, plant breeding, or phenotyping.
United States of America