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Biography
Howlett received her BSc with honors from the University of Melbourne in 1970, her MSc from the Australian National University in 1973, and her PhD from the University of Melbourne in 1981. She is currently a professor at the University of Melbourne.
In 2011 Howlett led an Australian team of researchers who, along with scientists from the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, sequenced the genome of the blackleg fungus, which attacks canola crops and, in 2003, caused 90% yield losses in parts of Australia. The research saved canola farmers on Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, at least $18 million in 2012.
She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in 2012, and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2014, which described her as a "leading international fungal plant pathologist".
Publications
Howlett has published numerous scholarly works and edited two books: