Plant Biology Graduate Group Seminar Series: "The shape of water: Understanding how water availability affects the structure of roots at the cell and organ-scales"

José Dinneny, Professor of Biology, Stanford University, presents "The shape of water: Understanding how water availability affects the structure of roots at the cell and organ-scales".

José received his BS in Plant Biology and Genetics from UC Berkeley and his PhD from UC San Diego, where he studied flower and fruit development with Detlef Weigel and Martin Yanofsky. As a postdoc with Philip Benfey at Duke University, he pioneered the use of Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting (FACS) to create the first tissue-specific transcriptional map of stress responses. He established his independent lab at the Temasek Lifesciences Laboratory and the National University of Singapore before moving to the Carnegie Institution for Science in 2011 and joining Stanford Biology in 2018. A fellow of AAAS and recipient of numerous honors—including the Science News “SN10: Scientists to Watch,” the Charles Albert Shull Award, and the Arabidopsis Community Impact Award—José is a former Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator and HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholar, and in 2024 became an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Host: Dr. Siobhan Brady (sbrady@ucdavis.edu)