Plant Science
The Department of Plant Biology is home to the Basic Plant Sciences on campus.
The Department has 31 Faculty including members from other Cornell Departments, the USDA Plant, Soil & Nutrition Laboratory and The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research. Research in the Department is also supported by some 24 postdoctoral fellows and research associates.
In addition, the Department of Plant Biology administers the Graduate Field of Plant Biology, a successful interdisciplinary Ph.D. training program that produces some of the top leaders in Plant Biology Research & Education.
Visit "About us" for an overview of the Department.
We welcome Adrienne Roeder, our newest Assistant Professor, who is joining us after completing her post doc at Caltech. Adrienne's office and lab are on the second floor of Weill Hall. She invites everyone to stop by. Adrienne's significant other, Erich Schwarz, will be joining Kelly Liu's lab as a senior Research Associate in January 2012.
Oldest Known Eucalyptus Macrofossils Are from South America.
Check out a recent article by Maria A. Gondolfo, Elizabeth J. Hermsen , Maria C. Zamaloa, Kevin C. Nixon and 4 others. Read more...
Michael J. Scanlon and Klaas van Wijk have been promoted to full professor as of April 1, 2011. Congratulations to them for this important recognition of their professional achievements.
Holly Summers is taking a broadly interdisciplinary approach to investigate the mechanisms of floral display and mating system evolution in Oeothera flava, the Yellow Evening Primrose (Onagraceae).
