Faculty Overview
- Klaus Apel: Understanding net-communication of singlet oxygen mediated stress responses with other stress responses in Arabidopsis
- Gary Blissard: Studying the Genetic Basis of Infection by Baculoviruses
- Tom Brutnell: Enhancing a Plant’s Response to Light
- Carmen Catala: Developing a comprehensive understanding of auxin homeostasis and signaling, primarily using tomato fruit development as a model experimental system.
- Zhangjun Fei: Bioinformatics
- Jim Giovannoni: Determining the Genetic Basis of Ripening in Fruit
- Maria Harrison: The Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and Plant Phosphate Nutrition
- Georg Jander: Understanding the Genetic Basis of Plant-Insect Interaction
- Dan Klessig: Understanding How Plants Protect Themselves Against Pathogens
- Ji-Young Lee: The Lee Lab focuses on understanding the gene regulatory network in the vascular tissues using Arabidopsis root as a model system.
- Gregory Martin: Understanding how bacteria infect plants and how the plant immune system operates.
- Peter Moffett: Studying the Molecular Mechanisms of Disease Resistance Proteins
- Lukas Mueller: Bioinformatics and Genomics
- Frank C. Schroeder: Our research is directed at characterizing structures and biological function of natural products, often referred to as secondary metabolites.
- David Stern: Defining the Genetic Basis of Intracellular Communication with Chloroplasts
- Joyce Van Eck: Understanding Disease Resistance & Nutrient Accumulation in Crop Plants
- Haiyang Wang: Studying the Role of Light in Plant Development
- Adjunct Scientist
- Emeritus Scientists