Dr. Baozhong Meng is an Associate Professor of Virology in
the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, College of Biological
Science, and a member of the graduate fields of Molecular Biology and Genetics,
Microbiology, and Plant Biology. He received a Ph.D. degree in plant virology
in 1999 from Cornell University. He continued on as a postdoctoral research
associate in Cornell’s Plant Pathology Department in Geneva, New York. In 2002,
he joined the faculty of the University of Guelph. He has served on the
Virology Committee and the Biotechnology Impact Assessment Committee of the
American Phytopathological Society. He is currently a member of the review
panel for the OMAFRA-UoG Strategic Partnerships (Emergency Management) program.
In 2018, he was invited to serve on the review panel for the United Grant
Management program for Viticulture and Enology by the California Department of
Food and Agriculture. He also serves as a regular reviewer for numerous
national and international funding agencies, including the National Science
Foundation (NSF) of the United States, the Natural Science and Engineering
Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, the
Food and Rural Affairs New Directions Program, the State of Israel Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development, and the Chief Scientist of the
Israeli Ministry of Agriculture Fund program.
