Hilary Mayton is the Crop Protection Lead at Zymtronix. She obtained her PhD in Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology from Cornell University. She has over twenty years of research experience working in several laboratories at Cornell for 11 years and 5 years working on a bioenergy project in the Plant Breeding and Genetics department. She has spent the past four years working in the Seed Science and Technology Laboratory located at Cornell AgriTech.