Grad Group Affiliations

• Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
• Horticulture and Agronomy
• Plant Biology

Specialties / Focus

• Environmental and Integrative Biology
• Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Genomics

Courses

• BIT 161B Biotechnology, Spring
• PBI 200C ion transport and stress signaling, Spring

Labs

• PRB 1201

Honors and Awards

• 2003 - Alexander von Humboldt Prize
• 2008 - Fellow, Japan Society Promotion of Science
• 2011 - Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 2012 - Loomis Distinguished Lecturer, Iowa State University
• 2013 - RAICES Prize to Scientific Development and Cooperation, Ministry of Sciences and Technology, Argentina.
• 2013 - REDBIO-FAO International Prize, Latin American Biotechnology Network.
• 2014 - Fellow, American Society of Plant Biology

Professional Societies

• American Society of Plant Biologists
• Society for Experimental Biology
• American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Degrees

• Ph.D. - Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of California, Berkeley - Bioenergetics

Publications

Shaar-Moshe L, Blumwald E, Peleg Z (2017). Unique Physiological and Transcriptional Shifts under Combinations of drought, heat and salinity.  Plant Physiol. 174:421-434.

Sade N, Ummajkitikorn K, Rubio Wilhelmi MM, Wright M, Wang S, Blumwald, E (2017). Delaying chloroplast turnover increases water-deficit stress tolerance through the enhancement of nitrogen assimilation in rice. J. Exp. Bot. in press. doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erx247

Farcuh M, Li B, Rivero R, Sadka A, Blumwald E (2017). Sugar metabolism reprograming in a non-climacteric bud mutant of a climacteric plum fruit. J. Exp. Bot. 68:5813-5828.