Plant Biology Research
Research in this area includes studies on meiotic recombination, pollen development, signal transduction, metal cofactors, nutrient transport, plant ultrastructure, and genetic engineering.
Faculty in Plant Biology
Lorinda K. Anderson
Assistant Professor (Biology); Ph.D. Colorado State University, 1993. Meiotic recombination in plants and animals; role of recombination-related proteins in homologous synapsis and the control of crossing over.
Patricia A. Bedinger
Professor (Biology); Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco 1982. Pollen development and function at the molecular and cellular level.
Daniel Bush
Professor and Chair (Biology); Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 1984. Signal transduction pathways that regulate the systemic distribution of organic nutrients in plants.
Stephen Chisholm
Assistant Professor (Bioagricutural Sicences & Pest Management); Ph.D. Washington State University 2000. Interactions between host and pathogen proteomes that mediate bacterial pathogenesis.
Nora Lapitan
Professor (Soil & Crop Sciences); Ph.D., Kansas State, 1986. Molecular genetics and genomics of plants, molecular genetic techniques to clone genes for economically important traits in wheat and barley.
June I. Medford
Associate Professor (Biology); Ph.D. Yale 1986. Molecular and genetic studies of Arabidopsis: in vivo imaging; plant sentinels.
Marinus Pilon
Associate Professor (Biology); Ph.D., Utrecht (Netherlands), 1992. Intracellular protein trafficking; metal cofactor transport and metal cofactor assembly of proteins involved in photosynthesis.
Anireddy S.N. Reddy
Professor (Biology); Ph.D. Jawaharlal Nehru 1984. Signal transduction mechanisms; regulation of gene expression; crop improvement by genetic engineering.
Stephen M. Stack
Professor (Biology); Ph.D. Texas 1969. Structure and behavior of chromosomes throughout both the mitotic and meiotic cell cycles, the synaptonemal complex, recombination nodules, and genetic crossing over.
Jorge M. Vivanco
Associate Professor (Horticulture & Landscape Architecture); Ph.D.Pennsylvania 1999. Biochemical, molecular and metabolic profiling approaches to root exudations processes; biology and biochemistry of ribosome-inactivating proteins in plants.