Faculty in the Field of Plant Biology
The Graduate Field of Plant Biology has 48 Faculty that span many departments at Cornell. Most faculty welcome new students into their labs for thesis research at the end of their second semester, following course work and a laboratory rotation period. (Availability of thesis research projects is indicated on each Faculty Profile page).
|
Name |
Contact |
Dept |
Research interest |
| Björkman, Thomas | Geneva Station 49-218 |
Horticult Sci | Developmental physiology; environmental regulation and root development |
| Brutnell, Thomas | 129 Boyce T. Inst 254-8656 |
BTI | Tools for functional genomics, light dependent signal transduction pathways in maize |
| Collmer, Alan | 350 Plant Science 255-7843 |
Plant Pathology | Functional genomics of bacterial-pathogen interactions |
| Crepet, William | 412 Mann Library 255-7977 |
Plant Biology | Diversity, relationship and evolution of seed and flowering plants |
| Davies, Peter | 255 Plant Science 255-8237 |
Plant Biology | Plant hormones and their role in growth and development |
| Davis, Jerrold | 214 Plant Science 255-7980 |
Plant Biology | Systematics, phylogeny and species delimitation, focus on the grasses (Poaceae) |
| Doyle, Jeffrey | 259 Plant Science 255-7972 |
Plant Biology | Molecular systematics and evolution. |
| Earle, Elizabeth | 514 Bradfield Hall 255-3102 |
Plant Breeding | Tissue culture; gene transfer; disease and insect resistance; cytoplasmic male sterility |
| Gan, Susheng | G51A Emerson Hall 255-6381 |
Horticulture | Genomics, regulation and biotechnology of senescence; post-harvest biology |
| Giovannoni, James | 429 Boyce T. Inst 255-1414 |
BTI | Molecular and genetic analysis of tomato fruit ripening |
| Hanson, Maureen | 323 Biotech Bldg 254-4833 |
Mol Biol Genet | Plastid and mitochondrial gene expression, chloroplast movement |
| Harrison, Maria | 409 Boyce T. Inst 254-6472 |
BTI | Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis; plant phosphate transport and nutrition; root biology |
| Hua, Jian | 158 Emerson Hall 255-5554 |
Plant Biology | Genetics of temperature responses in plants; regulation of plant defense responses |
| Jander, Georg | 407 Boyce T. Inst 254-1365 |
BTI | Plant-insect interactions; plant amino acid biosynthesis; plant biochemistry |
| Kessler, Andre | 445 Corson Hall 254-4219 |
Ecol & Evol Biology | Molecular, chemical ecology; plant-insect and multitrophic interactions; responses to herbivory |
| Klessig, Daniel | 223 Boyce T. Inst 254-4560 |
BTI | Plant-virus interaction; signal transduction in defense responses; salicylic acid signaling |
| Kochian, Leon | 121 Fed Nutr Lab 255-2454 |
USDA | Molecular physiology of ion transport; plant abiotic stress tolerance; plant biochemistry |
| Lazarowitz, Sondra | 359 Plant Science 255-7830 |
Plant Pathology | Molecular virology; plant virus-host interactions; function of viral movement proteins |
| 140 Robert Holley Center 255-5708 |
Robert Holley |
Regulation of plant secondary and micronutrient metabolism | |
| Luckow, Melissa | 260 Plant Science 255-7829 |
Plant Biology | Phylogeny of flowering plants; legume systematics; cultivated plant families |
| Martin, Gregory | 327 Boyce T. Inst 254-1208 |
BTI | Disease resistance; signal transduction; genomics; applications of genetic engineering |
| McCouch, Susan | 162 Emerson Hall 255-0420 |
Plant Breeding | Development and application of molecular tools for rice improvement |
| Mutschler, Martha | 303 Bradfield Hall 255-1660 |
Plant Breeding | Pest resistance and use of wild species in tomato and onion |
| Nasrallah, June | 260 Emerson Hall 255-8189 |
Plant Biology | Self-incompatibility phenomena; cell-cell interactions in plants |
| Nasrallah, Mikhail | 261 Emerson Hall 255-8191 |
Plant Biology | Reproductive biology, cellular communication between the male gametophyte - pistil |
| Niklas, Karl | 208 Plant Science 255-8727 |
Plant Biology | Plant evolution, morphology, and biomechanics |
| Nixon, Kevin | 216 Plant Science 255-7975 |
Plant Biology | Oak taxonomy; cladistics; computer programs; paleobotany, phylogeny of angiosperms |
| Obendorf, Ralph | 617 Bradfield Hall 227-9313 |
Crop & Soil Sci | Seed biology, plant biochemistry |
| Owens, Thomas | 217 Plant Science 255-8516 |
Plant Biology | Physiology; biophysics and regulation of photosynthesis; plant stress; biochemistry |
| Popescu, Sorina | 121 Boyce Thompson Institute 254-2290 |
BTI | Protein microarrays; plant signal transduction |
| Pawlowski, Wojciech | 405 Bradfield 254-8745 |
Plant Breeding | Plant molecular biology; meiosis mechanisms of chromosome pairing and recombination |
| 355W Seeley G Mudd 254-4353 |
Neuro & Behavior |
Reproductive ecology, plant volatile biosynthesis, floral evolution, plant signaling | |
| Richards, Eric | 125 Boyce Thompson Institute 254-4676 |
BTI | Epigenetics of Arabidopsis |
| Rodriguez, Eloy | 257 Plant Science 254-2956 |
Plant Biology | Plant chemical systematics/evolution; medical botany; phytochemistry; biochemistry |
| Roeder, Adrienne | 239 Weill Hall 255-4467 |
Plant Biology | Role of cell division and growth in plant development and patterning |
| Rose, Jocelyn | 331 Emerson Hall 255-4781 |
Plant Biology | Plant cell walls, role of primary walls in regulation of plant growth and development |
| Scanlon, Michael | 140 Emerson Hall 254-1156 |
Plant Biology | Plant development; meristem function; evolution of leaf morphology |
| Setter, Timothy | 521 Bradfield Hall 255-1701 |
Crop & Soil Sci | Stress response, hormonal and sugar signaling; cell division; reproductive abortion |
| Spanswick, Roger | 316 Riley-Robb 351-2813 |
Biol Envir Eng | Plant cell electrophysiology and ion transport; ATP-ases; photosynthate partitioning |
| Sparks, Jed | Room E409A,Dale R Corson Bio Science Wing 254-4270 |
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Plant physiological ecology; plant physiology; biosphere-atmosphere interactions; stable isotopes |
| Stern, David | 301 Boyce T. Inst 254-1306 |
BTI | Regulation of plant organelle gene expression by nuclear factors |
| Stevenson, Dennis | New York Bot Gard (718)817-8632 |
NYBG | Plant structure/development; phylogeny, cycad biology |
| Tanksley, Steven | 248 Emerson Hall 255-1673 |
Plant Breeding | Structural analysis of higher plant nuclear genome with DNA markers |
| Turgeon, Robert | 256 Plant Science 255-8395 |
Plant Biology | Phloem transport; carbohydrate synthesis; phloem loading; plasmodesmata |
| vanWijk, Klaas | 332 Emerson Hall 255-3664 |
Plant Biology | Chloroplast biogenesis; proteomics; mass spectrometry; Arabidopsis; biochemistry |
| Vatamaniuk, Olena | 608 Bradfield Hall 255-8049 |
Crop & Soil Sci | Heavy metal detoxification; proteome and metabolome responses to heavy metal toxicity |
| Wayne, Randy | 203 Plant Science 255-8904 |
Plant Biology | Understanding plant cell responses of light, gravity, and salt stress |
| Winans, Stephen | 360A Wing Hall 255-2413 |
Microbiology | Cell signaling between the plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens and its hosts |