Raymond St. Leger
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Raymond J. St.
Leger (born 1957, London, England) is an American mycologist, entomologist, and molecular biologist who currently holds the rank of Distinguished University Professor in the University of Maryland's College Park Department.
He supports online open education and has co-taught with Dr. Tammatha O'Brien a massive online Coursera course called Genes and the Human Body since 2013.
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More than 150 scientific papers and book chapters on fungal pathogens of plants, animals, and insects, as well as host reactions to infection have been published.
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Education
St. Leger earned his Bachelor of Science in Biology from Exeter University, England, in 1980, a Master of Science in entomology from Birkbeck College, London University, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Bath, England in 1985.
Research and career
At the invitation of Donald W. Roberts, St. Leger began his studies at the Boyce Thompson Institute in the United States. He has since published more than 150 scientific papers and book chapters on fungal pathogens of plants, animals, and insects, as well as host reactions to infection, according to Google Scholar. St. Leger has mainly used entomopathogenic fungi (fungi that act as parasites of insects) as models for investigating how pathogens respond to stress, changing environments, spark host invasion, colonize tissues, and monitor host immune responses. These studies have also addressed the mechanisms by which new pathogens appear with various host ranges and genetic variations among hosts' defenses. Fungal and insect behavior and evolution, molecular biology, and genomics of fungi are among other topics that can be exploited to benefit agriculture.
St. Leger is also known for the development of transgenic plants, including altering insect pathogens so they have genes encoding spider and scorpion toxins. These engineered pathogens have the ability to treat insect borne diseases such as malaria, according to a field trial in Burkina Faso. St. Leger has successfully tested a number of "alternative engineering tactics" in order to meet the highly exploratory approach used for optimizing a pathogen biocontrol's effectiveness. For example, engineering a mosquito pathogenic fungus to have a gene for a human anti-malarial antibody so that the fungus targets the malarial parasite in the mosquito minimizes the likelihood of mosquitoes developing resistance to the disease.
St. Leger has worked as a biotechnology consultant to many private and public issues, including the NIH, the NSF, the US State Department, and the Organization of American States. Since being a member of several national and international policy commissions, including Bill Gates funded National Academies Committee to explore technologies to benefit Sub Saharan Africa and South Asia (2009), St. Leger has served on many national and international policy committees, including the Bill Gates funded National Academies Committee to investigate technologies to help Sub Saharan Africa and South Asia.
St. Leger is a promoter of online open education, and he has co-taught with Dr. Tammatha O'Brien, a MOOC on the Coursera platform, that has attracted more than 200,000 active learners.