Terry Niblack is a Professor in the Crop Sciences Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her BS and MS degrees from the University of Tennessee, and Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of Georgia in Plant Pathology. She has been involved in research and extension programs on
Heterodera glycines, the soybean cyst nematode, for over 25 years. Following graduate school, 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 are the Outstanding Achievement Award from the United Soybean Board in 2003, the Excellence in Soybean Research Award from the Illinois Soybean Association in 2007, and the Wyffels Award for Faculty Excellence in 2009.