Faculty

Thomas Berleth

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The Arabidopsis embryo represents a simple, reproducible cellular pattern comprised of few basic tissues and prototypes of leaf- and root-like organs. These structures are generated in a suite of highly reproducible stages that imply tight control of orientation and frequency of cell division as well as cell morphology and differentiation. 
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Dinesh Christendat

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Structural biology approaches to understand the functional divergence and regulation of metabolic proteins in plants and microbes. 
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Darrell Desveaux

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Systems biology of plant-microbe interactions. We investigate how pathogens cause disease and how plants defend themselves. 
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Daphne Goring

My overall research interests are to understand how plant cells communicate through signal transduction pathways to regulate plant reproduction in the Brassicaceae family (Arabidopsis and related species). 
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David S. Guttman

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Comparative, evolutionary and functional genomics. Evolution of host specificity and virulence in pathogenic bacteria. Microbiome studies of human and plant diseases. 
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Shelley Lumba

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Our goal is to elucidate molecular mechanisms underlying dormancy and germination in both non-parasitic and parasitic plants. We apply systems biology approaches to generate signalling networks during seed germination.  
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Peter McCourt

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The laboratory is focused on how hormones regulate developmental responses in higher plants. In particular, we use functional and chemical genomics approaches to dissect abscisic acid (ABA) and strigolactone signaling. 
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Heather McFarlane

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We ask and answer questions about the fundamental mechanisms by which plants sense their environment through the cell wall and how plants adjust their growth in response to these signals. 
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Eiji Nambara

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My research team investigates molecular mechanisms by which plants regulate plant hormone metabolism. 
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Nicholas J. Provart

Bioinformatic tools and analyses for hypothesis generation in plant biology. Wet-lab validation of hypotheses generated using such tools 
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Keiko Yoshioka

☀ Accepting Applications
Signal transduction of stress responses in plants with an emphasis on immunity; environmental effects on pathogen resistance; signal transduction networks in abiotic and biotic stress responses; production of stress resistant plants. 
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