Faculty and Academic Staff for Plant Biology
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Manuel Aregullin |
I am a Senior Research Associate in the Departments of Plant Biology and Molecular Biology and Genetics. I am a medicinal chemist with ample experience in the field of chemical prospecting for drug development relevant to tropical infectious diseases, cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer. My Laboratory of Natural Products and Medicinal Chemistry has focused on the chemistry and pharmacology of plants used for medicinal purposes from around the world, and I am a pioneer in the chemistry and ... More > |
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Carmen Catala |
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William Crepet |
As Department Chair I am particularly interested in developing departmental preeminence in basic plant biology at a time when progress in basic plant biology research is important to critical societal needs including: the development of strategic responses to the effects of climatic change in vital areas including biodiversity maintenance and agriculture; the development of biomedicinals, and investigations of plant based energy sources. My immediate goal has been to build strength in various ... More > |
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Peter Davies |
Peter Davies has a prime appointment in teaching plant physiology to students of agriculture and horticulture, though he has taught plant growth and development and plant hormones, as well as biology to non-majors, for many years. His area of expertise is plant growth and development, with special reference to the role of hormones in growth and development, and the regulation of the senescence of whole plants. Most of his research has involved the utilization of defined genotypes. He has ... More > |
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Jerrold Davis |
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Jeffrey Doyle |
My training is as a plant systematist, studying the evolutionary relationships of flowering plants. Beginning with my doctoral work I have been interested in genome duplication, and my work in this area involves comparative genomics of polyploid species. Most of this work involves the large and economically important legume family ("beans"), where projects include studies addressing the origin of nodulation (symbiotic nitrogen fixation) and the study of gene families involved in cell wall ... More > |
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Giulia Friso |
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Maria Gandolfo Nixon |
Paleobotany and Plant anatomy, with emphasis on plant evolution and development, origin of angiosperms, Cretaceous and Tertiary floras and paleoclimate of North and South America. More > |
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James Giovannoni |
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Jonathan Hart |
Plant physiology of heavy metals and mineral nutrition More > |
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Jian Hua |
Plants monitor and respond to their environment constantly, which is essential for their viability and fitness. The ultimate goal of our research is to understand the molecular mechanisms by which plants perceive environmental signals and integrate signals to regulate their growth and development. We are using Arabidopsis thaliana as a model plant to investigate two distinct but interacting responses, one to temperature variations and one to pathogen invasions. More > |
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Lee Kass |
I received my doctoral training in plant anatomy, plant physiology and genetics at Cornell University. During six years of postdoctoral and research appointments, I concurrently taught classes part-time in my chosen fields. I then entered full-time teaching (24 credit hours per year) at Elmira College and conducted research with students during summers as an adjunct professor at the L.H. Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University. I established the Elmira College Herbarium in 1984, founded on the ... More > |
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Jitae Kim |
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Melissa Luckow |
My research focuses on speciation and phylogeny of flowering plants, particularly the legume family. I am currently working on several interrelated projects in the mimosoid legumes. The first is a study of three genera in the Dichrostachys group. This group has radiated widely throughout Madagascar, with all but three of approximately 30 species endemic to the island. The group provides a model system for investigating the evolution of Malagasy plants both because there are a large number of ... More > |
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Mikhail Nasrallah |
Mikhail Nasrallah obtained a B.Sc. at the American University of Beirut, an M.Sc. at the University of Vermont, and a Ph.D. at Cornell University. More > |
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June Nasrallah |
June Nasrallah obtained her B.Sc. in Biology at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon and her Ph.D. in Genetics at Cornell University. More > |
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Karl Niklas |
I am a plant evolutionist who uses physics, engineering, and mathematics to understand the relationship between plant form and function and how this relationship has evolved in consort with the physical environment over the course of Earth`s history. More > |
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Kevin Nixon |
I have diverse research interests in the theory and practice of plant systematics. My taxonomic interests include higher level analysis of seed plant and angiosperm relationships, and relationships of Hamamamelid and Rosid ordinal and family relationships. I work at the generic and species level within Fagaceae, and in particular in Quercus. I anticipate completion of the taxonomic treatment for Quercus for Flora Mesoamaricana this summer (2003). I am also very much involved in paleobotanical ... More > |
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Thomas Owens |
My overall goals at Cornell continue to be improving the pedogagy of instruction, particularly in large classroom environments. I continue to work on several aspects of the biology curriculum. I chair several committees in the Office of Undergraduate Biology focused on teaching and research in the Biology major. This year I am on a leave of absence from Cornell, producing 3D animations of cellular processes and associated online, Socratic tutorials for use in introductory biology courses. More > |
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James Reveal |
Plant systematics is an ever-changing field that brings its past with it. I concentrate on dealing with that past from both an historical and a nomenclature perspective by concentrating on who, where and when plants were found in North America, and by compiling suprageneric names. The objective of my historical work is to provide concise information on the contributions of botanical collectors who gathered plants in North America from approximately 1600 until 1900, concentrating mainly on those ... More > |
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Eloy Rodriguez |
As the James A. Perkins endowed Professor and Research Scientist at Cornell, I have devoted my professional life to the chemical biology. ecology and medicinal chemistry and toxicology of natural small molecules and glycoproteins from plants and arthropods that are important in ecological and biological interactions and human and animal health and medicine. In collaboration with Dr. Richard Wrangham at Harvard we established the discipline of zoopharmacognosy (animal self medication with plants) ... More > |
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Adrienne Roeder |
I am fascinated by how beautiful and complex patterns form during development. The patterning process generally requires that one cell adopts a different identity from its neighbor. Patterns are generally formed while the cells are growing and dividing, yet the coordination of cell division and growth with the process of patterning is only beginning to be understood. In plants, regulation of cell division is crucial for proper development because plant cells cannot move or even slip relative to ... More > |
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Jocelyn Rose |
The research interests of the Rose lab are centered on the structure, function and metabolism of plant cell walls and their pivotal roles in growth, development and interactions with pathogens. Additionally, cellulosic cell walls represent a central component of the biofuels industry, as well as providing the building blocks for a broad range of plant-derived products. More > |
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Michael Scanlon |
Mike Scanlon received his Ph. D in Genetics in 1993 from Iowa State University, and was an NSF postdoctoral fellow at University of California-Berkeley from 1993-1997. Mike joined the faculty of the Plant Biology Department at the University of Georgia in September 1997, and moved his lab to the Department of Plant Biology at Cornell University in January 2006. More > |
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Thomas Silva |
My primary focus is in the instruction of plant biology courses for majors and non majors More > |
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Laurel Southard |
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David Stern |
David Stern received his M. Phil. from Cambridge University in Biochemistry, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Biological Sciences. Following postdoctoral training at Univ. California, Berkeley, in plant molecular biology, he joined the Boyce Thompson Institute faculty as an Assistant Scientist in 1989, and subsequently was appointed as adjunct in the Department of Plant Biology. He currently serves as President of BTI, an office he has held since 2004, and is an Adjunct Professor of Plant ... More > |
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Dennis Stevenson |
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Titima Tantikanjana |
I am interested in plant reproductive biology, particularly in the molecular mechanisms underlying pollen-pistil interactions. Flowering plants have evolved complex mechanisms not only to support pollination and fertilization success, but also to shape plant mating systems and determine species-specific interactions. I am interested in how these processes are mediated and how they are influenced by other internal and external cues. More > |
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E robert Turgeon |
We conduct interdisciplinary research on the cell biology and physiology of phloem transport. Integral to these projects are studies of leaf development, the structure and function of plasmodesmata, and virus movement. Molecular, physiological, and anatomical techniques are employed in approximately equal measure. Our primary interest is in phloem loading, the active accumulation of sugars in minor vein sieve elements and companion cells. Loading creates the pressure that drives long-distance ... More > |
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Klaas Van Wijk |
After completing his B.Sc. and M.Sc. at the Agricultural University Wageningen (Netherlands), van Wijk obtained a PhD at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). This was then followed by postdocs at the Dept. of Biochemistry, Stockholm University, Sweden and at the Carnegie Institute at Stanford University (CA). He then became assistant professor in 1997 at the Dept. of Biochemistry, Stockholm University and moved his lab in 2001 to Cornell University. In 2005 he was promoted to tenured ... More > |
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Randy Wayne |
I am a scientist and a teacher: an amateur, in that I do what I love and a dilettante in that I do what I find delight in. I am less of a professional in that a professional may be assessed more by his/her short term career accomplishments than by the long term results that come from his/her calling. My research has focused on questioning the assumptions underlying the current quantum electrodynamic theories and orthodox interpretation of the photon. As a teacher, I have tried to pass on a deep ... More > |
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Cankui Zhang |
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