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Department of Plant Biology
University of Minnesota
250 Biological Science Center
1445 Gortner Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55108

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David Biesboer
Ecophysiology and anatomy of angiosperms

Robert Brambl
Molecular and cellular biology

Iris Charvat
Mycorrhizal associations; fungal development; seed bank dynamics in wet lands

Steve Gantt
Plant molecular biology

Sue Gibson
Molecular Genetics and Genomics Approaches to Characterizing Plant Response to Sugar Levels and Production of anti-Cancer Compounds

Jane Glazebrook
Genomics of plant defense response

Florence Gleason
Physiological function of thioredoxin in cyanobacteria

William Gray
Molecular basis of auxin-regulated growth and development; ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis

Hegeman, Adrian
Plant metabolomics and biological mass spectrometry

Fumiaki Katagiri
Systems biology of disease resistance mechanisms

Pete Lefebvre
Chlamydomonas genetics, Cytoskeleton and cell motility

Georgiana May*
Evolution of host/microbe interactions

David Marks
Molecular genetic control of cell fate in plants.

David McLaughlin
Evolution and systematics of higher fungi

Min Ni
Light signal transduction and photomorphogenesis

Neil Olszewski
Molecular mechanisms of hormone action; molecular genetics of DNA viruses

Jennifer Powers*
Terrestrial biogeochemistry, ecosystem processes, microbial ecology, tropical ecology   and landscape ecology

Anton Sanderfoot
Cell biological and genetic analysis of vesicle trafficking in Arabidopsis

Imke Schmitt*
Evolution of lichenized fungi, molecular phylogenetics symbiosis, fungal systematics, evolution of biosynthetic genes

Carolyn Silflow
Molecular genetic analysis of plant genes

Pete Snustad
Cytoskeleton and cell motility, Gene expression, Developmental mechanisms

Nathan Springer
Molecular basis of epigenetic phenomena

Peter Tiffin
Evolutionary and ecological genetics; molecular and phenotypic evolution of plant defenses

Kate VandenBosch
Cell biology of plant/microbe symbioses; functional genomics of legumes

John Ward
Membrane proteins and transport physiology

George Weiblen
Plant systematics, molecular phylogenetics, coevolution, and plant/pollinator interactions

Clifford Wetmore - Professor Emeritus
Lichenology

Susan Wick
Cytoskeletal basis of plant development and morphogenesis

Nevin Young*
Plant disease resistance gene

*Plant Biology Joint Appointment and Graduate Faculty

 
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