BIO: Dr. Niblack is a professor in the Crop Sciences Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Tennessee, and Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of Georgia in Plant Pathology, where she specialized in complex soybean disease interactions. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Iowa State University, spent 13 years at the University of Missouri in the Department of Plant Microbiology and Pathology, and moved to the University of Illinois in 2001. Among the awards she has received is the Outstanding Achievement Award from the United Soybean Board in 2003 and the Excellence in Soybean Research Award from the Illinois Soybean Association in 2007. She has been involved in research and extension programs on Heterodera glycines, the soybean cyst nematode, for nearly 30 years, and has recently begun working on emerging problems related to corn nematodes.