Asuncion Raymundo

Asuncion K. Raymundo is a Filipino biologist.

Biography

Raymundo was born on August 15, 1946. She got a bachelor's degree in soil microbiology from the University of the Philippines Los Baños College of Agriculture and got her Master's from University of Hawaii. Later on she got her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and became a post-doctor in the molecular genetics field at the International Rice Research Institute. she also took same position in Monash, Osaka and Kansas State universities. She is a member of the Philippine Society for Microbiology and is a President in the same field at the American Society. In 1987 she was awarded an Outstanding Teacher Award and received Presidential Diploma of Merit a year later. She trained over 130 graduate and undergraduate students. During her teachings she and her class studied hypersensitivity and pathogenicity gene of a microorganism called Xanthomonas oryzae, and Ralstonia solanacearum a bacterial wilt which was found on solanaceous crops and bananas. In 2001 she became Pantas Awardee. Currently she is a dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in the University of the Philippines.