Graduate Faculty in Plant Biology

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Graduate Faculty in Plant Biology

Name	C.V.	Research Area
George Bean	Emeritus Professor Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1963.	Plant pathology: occurrence, development, and control of mycotoxins.
Caren Chang	Associate Chair and Associate Professor Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 1988.	Plant molecular biology: signal transduction; hormonal signaling.
Todd Cooke	Professor Ph.D. Cornell University, 1979.	Plant morphogenesis; developmental processes in lower vascular plants; evolution of developmental mechanisms.
James Culver	Associate Adjunct Professor Ph.D. University of California, Riverside, 1991.	Molecular plant-virus interactions; virion assembly, replication, and long-distance movement of tobacco mosaic virus.
Charles Delwiche	Associate Professor Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990.	Molecular systematics, phylogeny, and evolution of chloroplasts. Microbial genome sequencing.
Elisabeth Gantt	Emerita Professor Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1958.	Cell biology: photosynthetic apparatus and accessory pigments; physiology of algae; phylogenetic relationships.
Steven Hutcheson	Professor Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1982.	Molecular plant pathology; molecular biology of Pseudomonas parasitism; role and regulation of Type III protein secretion systems; pathogenicity and non host plant resistance.
June Kwak	Assistant Professor Ph.D. Pohang University, 1997.	Guard cell abscisic acid and Ca2+ signal transduction. Single cell-type functional genomics.
Zhongchi Liu	Associate Professor Ph.D. Harvard University, 1990.	Mechanism of reproductive development in higher plants
Stephen Mount	Associate Professor Ph.D. Yale University, 1983.	Pre-mRNA splicing in Arabidopsis and Drosophila.
Anne Simon	Professor Ph.D. Indiana University, 1983.	Molecular biology of plant-virus interactions.
David Straney	Associate Professor Ph.D. Yale University, 1987.	Fungal molecular biology: molecular biology fungal pathogenicity on plants; mechanisms of gene regulation.
Heven Sze	Professor Ph.D. Purdue University, 1975.	Cell biology & physiology; ion transport and ion homeostasis in plant growth, reproduction, and adaptation
Stephen Wolniak	Professor Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1979.	Cell biology: cell motility; mechanisms of chromosome movement during mitosis; signal transduction in the regulation of mitotic progression.