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Discovering Curiosity: Tilling the Fields of Plant Molecular Biology with Professor Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar

During his career, Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar has published more than 100 research papers and reviews and has received many accolades. For his excellence in molecular plant pathology research, Dinesh-Kumar recently received the Noel T. Keen Award from The American Phytopathological Society.

Food, Agriculture and Plant Biology

Nitzan Shabek

Assistant Professor
College of Biological Sciences
Department of Plant Biology

Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms of signaling pathways and their regulation by proteolytic systems

LSA 1224

Patrick Shih

Assistant Professor
Department of Plant Biology, College of Biological Sciences
Joint BioEnergy Institute

Research Interests: Engineering and investigating the evolution of metabolic pathways using synthetic biology

2251 Life Sciences

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra

Professor
Department of Evolution and Ecology
Center for Population Biology
Genome Center

5310 Storer Hall

Gitta Coaker

Professor
Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Research Interests: Understanding bacterial-plant interactions, plant immune receptor activation and membrane-based immune signaling.

576 Hutchison Hall Davis, CA 95616-8680

Alan Rose

Lecturer; Project Scientist
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, College of Biological Sciences

Research Interests: The effect of introns on gene expression.

3251 Life Sciences

Dr. Diane M. Beckles

Associate Professor
Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

133 Asmundson Hall

Douglas Cook

Professor
Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Research Interests: Harnessing wild species for crop improvement

116 Robbins Hall

Dan Kliebenstein

Plant Biology Graduate Group Chair; Professor
Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Center for Population Biology
Genome Center

Research Interests: Quantitative Systems Biology

129 Asmundson Hall

John I. Yoder

Professor
Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Research Interests: Genomics and molecular biology of subterranian plant-plant interactions

101 Asmundson Hall