MSU Plant Biology Department

Genomics

"The Department of Plant Biology pursues excellence in the fundamental plant sciences by fostering innovative research and teaching that encompasses and integrates all levels of biological organization, from molecules to ecosystems."


Robin Buell; Jeffrey K. Conner; Jianping Hu; Robert Last;John B. Ohlrogge; Katherine W. Osteryoung; Tao Sang; Shin-Han Shiu; Barbara B. Sears; Yair Shachar-Hill; Frances Trail; Richard E. TriemerC. Peter Wolk


 

Robin Buell
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Associate Professor
Ph.D. Utah State University, Logan

Jeffrey K. Conner
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Professor
Ph.D. Cornell University

Plant/pollinator interactions; evolutionary ecology; ecological genetics

Jianping Hu
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Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Georgia
Molecular mechanisms of peroxisomal function and regulation in plants

Robert Last
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Professor
Ph.D. Carnegie-Mellon University

Plant Genetics, metabolic regulation, amino acid and vitamin biosynthesis, secondary metabolism, function genomics

John B. Ohlrogge

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Professor
Ph.D. University of Michigan

Lipid and fatty acid biosynthesis, metabolic engineering, genomics, regulation of metabolism, seed oil accumulation

Katherine W. Osteryoung
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Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Davis

Structural organization and dynamics of the chloroplast division machinery; molecular mechanisms controlling chloroplast division and expansion in plant cells

Tao Sang
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Professor
Ph.D. Ohio State University

Genetics and diversity of plants

Barbara B. Sears
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Professor
Ph.D. Duke University

The Sears research group investigates the genetic controls of chloroplast DNA replication and repair and plant mitochondrial recombination

Yair Shachar-Hill
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Associate Professor
Ph.D. Yale University
The arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis, non-photosynthetic one carbon metabolism, metabolic engineering, plant NMR spectroscopy

Shin-Han Shiu
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Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison

Evolutionary and comparative genomics; gene family evolution, functional divergence of duplicate genes

Frances Trail
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Associate Professor
Ph.D. Cornell University

Development in filamentous fungi and host-pathogen interactions using genetics, genomics and physiological approaches

Richard E. Triemer
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Professor
Chairman
Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Revising the systematics of the Euglenophyta using morphological, behavioral and molecular studies

C. Peter Wolk
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Professor
Ph.D. Rockefeller Institute

Developmental physiology and genetics of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)



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