Dr. Aman Husbands, University of Pennsylvania, presents "Mechanisms Driving Functional Divergence of Transcription Factors".

Aman got his Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto where he learned to love plant biology from Nancy Dengler. He then received his PhD from Patricia Springer’s lab at the University of California – Riverside where he showed the LOB DOMAIN (LBD) genes constitute a new class of plant-specific transcription factors. Aman joined then Marja Timmermans lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in NY where he studied molecular mechanisms polarizing the adaxial-abaxial (or dorsoventral) axis, which drives the production of flat leaf architecture. In January of 2018, Aman started his own lab at Ohio State in the Molecular Genetics department. His lab recently moved to the University of Pennsylvania, joining the Dept of Biology in Jan of 2022. His lab is interested in the mechanisms that govern complexity and reproducibility, two outcomes which seem in tension yet are both defining features of development.

Host: Neelima Sinha (nrsinha@ucdavis.edu)