Faculty Resesarch
Greg Armstrong
Light regulation of plant development, plastid differentiation and
pigment biosynthesis; mechanisms of plant protection against photo-oxidative
damage.
David Bisaro
Molecular biology of geminiviruses; including regulation of viral
DNA replication and gene expression, and mechanisms of viral pathogenesis.
Biao Ding
Structure and function of plasmodesmata, intercellular trafficking
of proteins, RNAs, viruses and viroids.
Venkat Gopalan
Structure and mechanism of action of ribonuclease P, a catalytic
ribonucleoprotein complex; use of plant RNase P to inhibit gene expression.
Erich Grotewold
Regulation of gene expression; Myb protein function and evolution;
metabolic engineering.
Patrice Hamel
Maturation of c-type cytochromes in organelles, redox components
and heme delivery systems in yeast mitochondria and green alga plastids.
Jyan-Chyun "JC" Jang
Sugar regulatory networks; molecular genetics of sink-source relationships.
Rebecca Lamb
Transcriptional regulation of gene expression during Arabidopsis
flower development; specificity of MADS box transcription factors.
David Mackey
Plant-pathogen interactions, virulence activity of bacterial effector
proteins, detection of effectors and induction of plant defense responses.
Iris Meier
Arabidopsis nuclear envelope proteins; proteomics of nuclear matrix;
anchoring of Ran signal transduction; computational analysis of the coiled-coil
ORFeome.
Berl Oakley
Mitosis; microtubules; organelle movement; Aspergillus genetics & molecular
biology.
Richard Sayre
Structure-function of photosystem II complex; metabolic engineering
of cassava; functional genomics of heavy metal tolerance.
Randy Scholl
Regulation of ribosomal synthesis in Arabidopsis.
David Somers
Molecular and genetic analysis of the circadian clock in plants.
Robert Tabita
Regulation and biochemistry of carbon dioxide and nitrogen assimilation;
metabolic engineering for product development and increased productivity.
Desh Pal Verma
Cell plate formation during cytokinesis; control of nitrogen assimilation;
osmoregulation and osmolyte production; phytoremediation of heavy metals.