Eloy Rodriguez

Eloy Rodriguez (born January 7, 1947 [http://web.archive.org/web/20030408173505/http://csy.com/DrEloyRodriguez.htm Profile at CSY.com] (archived copy from April 8, 2003)] ) is a Mexican-American biochemist. He is the James Perkins Professor of Environmental Studies at Cornell University. He was born in Edinburg, Texas. [http://iweb.ascb.org/index.cfm?navid=90&id=503&tcode=nws3 Profile at The American Society for Cell Biology] ]

Collaborating with primatologist Richard Wrangham, Rodriguez introduced the concept of zoopharmacognosy. [Gerber, Suzanne. [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0820/is_n255/ai_21224859 "Not just monkeying around"] , "Vegetarian Times", November 1998.]

Rodriguez graduated from the University of Texas, Austin with a B.S. in 1969 and a Ph.D. in Phytochemistry and Plant Biology in 1975. [http://web.search.cornell.edu/search?q=cache:VsGir6R1luMJ:www.toxicology.cornell.edu/rodrig.htm+Eloy&access=p&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&client=default_frontend&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&oe=ISO-8859-1 Profile at Cornell's Toxicology website] (archived)] Later, at the University of British Columbia, he received medical postdoctoral training in medicinal botany. He was an Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine from 1976 to 1994 before joining the faculty at Cornell.

Other interests

Rodriguez also serves as a faculty advisor for the [http://www.rso.cornell.edu/sol Science Organization of Latinos] at Cornell. [ [http://rso.cornell.edu/sol/members.php Members page for Cornell University Science Organization of Latinos] ]

Rodriguez is the director of the Cornell University Esbaran Amazon Field Laboratory located in the Amazon Rainforest near Iquitos, Peru

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External links

* [http://www.plantbio.cornell.edu/peoplec39f.html?netID=er30 Profile at Cornell]