Faculty
The Graduate Program in Plant Biological Sciences provides education in the basic plant sciences and opportunity for fundamental research in areas ranging from the molecular to the ecosystem level. This interdepartmental program has participants from the departments of Agronomy and Plant Genetics; Biochemistry; Biology-U of MN-Duluth; Ecology, Evolution and Behavior; Forest Resources; Genetics and Cell Biology; Horticultural Science; Plant Biology; Plant Pathology; Soil, Water and Climate; three colleges (Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences; Biological Sciences; and Natural Resources) as well as the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Experiment Station, the USDA Forest Service/ Northcentral Research Station, and the U of MN Lake Itasca Forestry and Biological Station.
Deborah
Allan - Department of Soil, Water and Climate - Root dynamics
and rhizosphere chemistry, plant adaptations to nutrient stress.
Neil
Anderson - Department of Horticulture Science - Flower breeding/genetics,
reproductive biology, invasive species research.
David Biesboer
- Department of Plant Biology - Ecophysiology and anatomy
of angiosperms. Director of the Lake
Itasca Forestry and Biological Field Station.
James M. Bradeen
- Department of Plant Pathology - Potato pathology and genomics.
Robert Brambl
- Department of Plant Biology - Molecular and cellular biology.
Clay
Carter - Department of Biology; Univ of MN-Duluth
Jeannine
Cavender-Bares - Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior;
Physiological ecology of plants; Phylogenetic structure of communities,
particularly within oak forests; Plant-mycorrhizal interactions;
Impacts of glocal change on plants.
Iris Charvat
- Department of Plant Biology - Mycorrhizal associations; fungal
development; seed bank dynamics in wetlands.
Jerry
Cohen - Department of Horticultural Science - Plant hormone
metabolism and regulation, embryogenesis, and organogenesis.
Anath Das
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
- Molecular mechanisms of DNA transport across cell membranes;
Plant-Microbe Interactions.
Ford
Denison - Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
- Evolution of legume-rhizobium mutualism; nodule physiology;
crop ecology
Julie
Etterson - Department of Biology, Duluth - Ecological genetics
of native plants.
Stephen Gantt
- Department of Plant Biology - Plant molecular biology, legume
functional genomics.
Gary
Gardner - Department of Horticultural Science - Plant growth
and development; photomorphogenesis; and plants and human health.
David
Garvin -Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics - -Molecular
genetic and genomic dissection of wheat disease resistance, and
the analysis of genetic factors in wheat that increase disease
susceptibility
Sue Gibson
- Department of Plant Biology - Using Genomics and Genetics to
Characterize the Effects of Sugar Levels on Plant Metabolism and
Development.
Jane
Glazebrook - Department of Plant Biology - Genomics of plant
defense responses.
Florence
Gleason - Department of Plant Biology - Physiology of cell
division and carbon metabolism in cyanobacteria. Natural products
in aquatic plants.
Peter Graham
- Department of Soil, Water and Climate - Biology and ecology
of Rhizobium. Prairie revegetation and nitrogen fixation. Biocomplexity
in the Phaseolus-Rhizobium symbiosis.
John
Gronwald - Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics - Controlling
Weeds with Phytopathogens.
William Gray
-Department of Plant Biology - Molecular basis of auxin-regulated
growth and development; ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis.
Adrian Hegeman- Department of Horticulture - Systems Biology and Biotechnology.
Robert
Jones - Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics - Physiology
of kernel development in Zea mays, hormonal regulation and response
to high temperature stress.
Willard L. Koukkari
- Department of Plant Biology - Biological oscillations and
the temporal organization of plant development.
Fumiaki
Katagiri - Department of Plant Biology - Systems biology of
disease resistance mechanisms.
Paul (Pete)
Lefebvere- Department of Plant Biology - Genetics of the Chlamydomonas
flagellar apparatus; the Chlamydomonas genome project.
Albert
(Bud) Markhart - Department of Horticultural Science - Physiology
of plant response to environmental stress.
M. David Marks
- Department of Plant Biology - Molecular genetic control of cell
fate in plants.
Georgiana
May -- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; Department
of Plant Biology - Evolution of fungal populations, molecular
evolution of plant resistance and plant-pathogen interactions.
David
McLaughlin - Department of Plant Biology - Evolution and systematics
of higher fungi; mycorrhizal community structure.
Gary
Muehlbauer - Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics - Barley
and wheat molecular genetics.
Min Ni -
Department of Plant Biology - Light signal transduction and photomorphogenesis.
Neil Olszewski
- Department of Plant Biology - Molecular mechanisms of hormone
action; molecular genetics of DNA viruses.
James Perry
- Department of Forest Resources - Water quality and environmental
management.
Ron
Phillips - Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics - Genomics
and molecular genetics of crop plants.
Jennifer Powers - Depts of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior; Plant
Biology; and Soil, Water and Climate - Terrestrial biogeochemistry,
ecosystem processes, microbial ecology, tropical ecology and
landscape ecology.
Peter
Reich - Department of Forest Resources - Plant physiological
ecology, forest ecology, and global change biology.
Michael
Sadowsky - Department of Soil, Water and Climate - Molecular
genetics of plant-microbe symbioses.
Deborah Samac
- Department of Plant Pathology - Molecular strategies for disease
resistance and novel crop uses in alfalfa; functional genomics
of Medicago truncatula.
Anton
Sanderfoot - Department of Plant Biology - Cell biological
and genetic analysis of vesicle trafficking in Arabidopsis.
Imke Schmitt- Department of Plant Biology - Evolution of lichenized fungi, molecular phylogenetics symbiosis, fungal systematics, evolution of biosynthetic genes.
Ruth Shaw
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior - Evolutionary
genetics of plant populations.
Carolyn
Silflow - Department of Plant Biology - Molecular genetic
analysis of plant genes.
Kevin
Silverstein - Department of Plant Biology, Bioinformatics:
Analysis of genome-wide EST expression data; functional prediction
for uncharacterized biological sequences; investigations of novel
protein familes.
Alan
Smith - Department of Horticultural Science - Molecular genetics
and manipulation of plant reproduction.
D. Peter
Snustad - Department of Plant Biology - Genetic control of
the cytoskeleton in Arabidopsis.
Joseph
Sowokinos - Department of Horticultural Science - Mechanism
regulating starch-sugar interconversion in Solanum tuberosum.
Nathan
Springer - Department of Plant Biology - Molecular basis of
epigenetic phenomena.
Les Szabo -
Department of Plant Pathology - Molecular Genetics of host-parasite
interactions.
Robert
Stupar - Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics - Defining
the transcriptional variation present in soybean at both the
intragenomic and intraspecific levels.
Peter
Tiffin - Department of Plant Biology - Evolutionary and ecological
genetics; molecular and phenotypic evolution of plant defenses
Cindy
Tong - Department of Horticultural Science - Anthocyanin biosynthesis,
fruit ripening and softening.
Carroll
Vance - Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics - Biochemistry
and molecular biology of N2 fixation, N metabolism, and P stress.
Kathryn
VandenBosch - Department of Plant Biology - Cell biology of
plant/microbe symbioses; functional genomics of legumes.
Rodney
Venterea - Department of Soil, Water and Climate - Soil nitrogen
transformations and soil-atmosphere exchange of trace gases.
Daniel
Voyas - Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development
- Plant genome engineering through homologous recombination;
Retrotransposable elements and genome organization.
John Ward-
Department of Plant Biology - Membrane proteins and transport
physiology
George Weiblen-
Department of Plant Biology - Plant systematics, molecular phylogenetics,
coevolution, plant/insect interactions.
Susan Wick
- Department of Plant Biology -Plant cell, molecular and developmental
biology.
Nevin Young
- Department of Plant Pathology - Department of Plant Biology
- Genomic analysis of plant-pathogen interactions and genome organization.
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