N. Louise Glass is the Fred E. Dickinson Chair of Wood Science and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley.
[1] Her career and research has been in fungal cell biology and genetics and how these can be applied to biofuels and biotechnology.
After graduation she worked with Robert Metzenberg on fungal genetics and molecular biology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
[2] In 1989 Glass was appointed as an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia Biotechnology Laboratory where she worked on genetic and molecular analyses of mating type, nonself recognition and programmed cell death in filamentous fungi.
In 1999 she was recruited to the Plant and Microbial Biology Department at University of California, Berkeley, where she holds the UCB Fred E. Dickinson Chair of Wood Science and Technology.