Collaborations & Consulting

Trait or Platform	Scientist	Research Area	Collaborating and Consulting Opportunities	Patents
Abiotic Stress	Klaus Apel	Role of singlet oxygen in abiotic stress	Genes that may confer resistance to reactive oxygen species (cold, heat, drought, pollutants)	View
Biotic Stress - Nematodes	Frank C. Schroeder	Role of endogenous small molecules in the model nematode	Identification of potential nematode control molecules for plants and animals	View
Biotic stress- Disease	Dan Klessig	Roles of salicylic acid in immunity Characterization of multiple signaling components in immunity	Roles of salicylic acid in immunity Signaling in systemic acquired resistance Use of defense signaling components to engineer disease resistance Specificity of RNA silencing	View
Biotic stress- Disease	Gregory Martin	How bacteria infect plants and how the plant immune system operates	Engineering plant disease resistance: effector-triggered immunity and basal immunity	View
Biotic stress- Disease	Sorina Popescu	Function and control of signaling pathways of the plant immune system	Role of cell signaling and genetic engineering of basal immunity/non-host resistance
Biotic Stress- Insect	Gary Blissard	Genetic basis of infection by baculoviruses	Insect cell lines for protein/vaccine production or diagnostic assays	View
Biotic stress- Insect, Disease	Georg Jander	Genetic approaches to plant-insect interactions	Identification of plant genes/alleles conferring insect resistance Identification of bioactive insect-toxic or insect-repellant metabolites Biotech approaches to insect resistance	View
Enabling Technology - Proteomics	Sorina Popescu	Array-based functional protein assays	Array-based functional protein assays (e.g. protein interactions, kinase substrates, small molecule binding)
Enabling Technology - Transformation	Joyce Van Eck	Stable transformation of crop and model species	Service: Creating transgenics in tomato or monocot models to demonstrate gene efficacy Collaboration: Plant transformation system development and improvement Consulting: Transferring technology to enable transformation in C3 or C4 models Collaboration or Licensing: Manipulation of plastid maturation and carotenoid biosynthesis to increase beta-carotene accumulation	View
Enabling Technology - BioEnergy	David Stern	Regulation of RUBISCO assembly	Assembly of Rubisco to enable enzyme engineering
Enabling Technology - Bioinformatics	Lukas Mueller	Solanaceae Genomics Network	Databases to integrate, explore, and analyze large scale genomics datasets http://solgenomics.net/
Enabling Technology - Bioinformatics	Zhangjun Fei	Computational tools and databases to analyze and integrate large scale "omics" datasets	Computational tools and databases http://bioinfo.bti.cornell.edu/
Enabling Technology - Cell Lines	Gary Blissard	Isolation of insect cell lines for viral propagation/protein production	Insect cell lines for protein/vaccine production or diagnostic assay	View
Enabling Technology - Epigenetics	Eric Richards	Epigenetics, plant nuclear organization	The role of epigenetics in position effect and transgene expression stability Inherited epigenetic variation in breeding programs	View
Enabling Technology- Metabolomics	Frank C. Schroeder	Structure and biological function of biogenic small molecules (signaling molecules, natural products)	Identification and validation of bioactive natural products in complex mixtures 2D NMR-based comparative metabolomics for connecting genetic changes with changes in small molecule production Synthesis of small molecules for validation of biological activity	View
Yield	Carmen Catala	Role of auxin in fruit developmen	Role of auxin in tomato quality, processing, and yield Role of auxin in cell wall restructuring	View
Yield	Jim Giovannoni	Genetic basis of fruit ripening	Genetic control of fruit quality and ripening Genomic and epigenomic sequencing	View
Yield	Maria Harrison	The Arbuscular Mycorrhizal symbiosis and plant phosphate nutrition	Improving nutrient acquisition by modulating the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal symbiosis	View
Yield	Ji-Young Lee	Gene regulatory networks in roots	Sculpting root architecture for different environments and agricultural settings Tissue-specific promoters Biomass production
Yield	David Stern	Regulation of chloroplast photosynthetic genes at the RNA level	Chloroplast engineering for trait manipulation
Quality - Nutrition	Joyce Van Eck	Nutrient accumulation in crop plants (beta-carotene)	Manipulation of plastid maturation and carotenoid biosynthesis to increase beta-carotene accumulation	View

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