Publications
Faculty
Primary Members
- Dr. Siobhan Brady -
Assistant Professor
(profile,
lab website)
- Dr. Brady’s lab focuses on analysis of transcriptional networks that regulate tissue development using a systems biology approach.
- Dr. Anne Britt -
Professor and Vice Chair
(profile,
lab website)
- Dr. Britt’s lab focuses on DNA repair, damage response, and recombination in plants.
- Dr. Simon Chan - Associate Professor (profile, lab website)
- Dr. Luca Comai - Professor (profile, lab website)
- Dr. Katayoon Dehesh -
Professor
(profile,
lab website)
- Dr. Dehesh’s lab is focused on two projects:
- How do plants acquire information from the biotic and abiotic stress environments and integrate this information into responsive behavior?
- Identification of the genetic switches responsible for carbon challenging between sugars and oils.
- The ultimate goal of this project is to re-direct the reduced carbon to oil biosynthesis in cereals, as a source of biofuel.
- Dr. Dehesh’s lab is focused on two projects:
- Dr. Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar - Professor (profile, lab website)
- Dr. John Harada -
Professor
(profile)
- Plant developmental biology, with emphasis on molecular, genetic, biochemical, and genomic dissection of embryo and seed development.
- Stacey Harmer -
Professor
(profile,
lab website)
- Dr. Harmer's lab studies the molecular basis of plant circadian rhythms and the importance of these daily rhythms for plant growth and development.
- Bo Liu -
Professor
(profile,
lab website)
- Dr. Liu's research involves:
- To understand how plants propagate by investigating molecular mechanisms that regulate cell division and cell enlargement.
- To solve the mystery of fungal growth and dissemination by establishing molecular basis of cellularization and sporulation in Aspergillus.
- Dr. Liu's research involves:
- William Lucas -
Professor and Chair
(profile,
lab website)
- Dr. Lucas' lab studies the local and long-distance trafficking of non-cell-autonomous proteins and RNA complexes as signaling agents in the regulation of plant growth and development.
- Julin Maloof -
Professor
(profile,
lab website)
- Dr. Maloof's lab studies light-regulated development and plant adaptation using forward, reverse, and quantitative genetics and genomics.
- Dr. Sharman O'Neill - Professor (profile)
- Dr. Neelima Sinha -
Professor
(profile,
lab website)
- Dr. Sinha's lab uses Genetics, Developmental Biology and Genomics to answer questions relating to the development and evolution of leaf form.
- Dr. V. Sundaresan - Professor (profile, lab website)
- Steve Theg -
Professor
(profile,
lab website)
- Dr. Theg's lab studies protein translocation across biological membranes, with a focus on chloroplast membranes. Mechanism of multimeric protein complex assembly. Bioenergetics.
Secondary Members
- Dr. Judy Callis (profile)
- Dr. James Doyle (profile)
- Dr. Marilynn Etzler (profile)
- Dr. Charles Gasser (profile)
- Dr. Clark Lagarias (profile, lab website)
- Dr. Marcel Rejmanek (profile)
- Dr. Raymond Rodriguez (profile, lab website)
- Dr. Irwin Segel (profile)
Affiliated
Emeritus
To contact any of the Emeritus Faculty, please call the Department of Plant Biology at (530) 752-0617.
- Dr. Michael Barbour
- Dr. David Bayer (profile)
- Dr. Bruce Bonner
- Dr. Deborah Canington (profile)
- Dr. Paul Castelfranco
- Dr. Deborah Delmer (profile)
- Dr. Emanuel Epstein (profile)
- Dr. Richard Falk (profile)
- Dr. Hendrick Ketallapper
- Dr. Donald Kyhos
- Dr. Norma Lang
- Dr. Terence Murphy - Professor (profile, lab website)
- Dr. Tom Rost
(profile,
lab website)
- The lab focuses generally on aspects of the anatomy and development of roots. We have recently initiated a project involving grapevines with respect to Pierce's Disease.
- Dr. Alan Stemler
(profile)
- Biochemical and biophysical aspects of photosynthesis. Structural and functional properties of chloroplast thylakoid membranes. Mechanism of oxygen evolution, inhibition of electron flow by monovalent anions, and resistance to herbicides that target the thylakoid membrane.
- Dr. Robert Thornton
- Dr. Larry Vanderhoef - Professor (profile)
- Dr. Kenneth Wells