Plant & Microbial Biosciences

Inventing a new way to sequence DNA; PCR at one temp; RT-enabled Taq pol.

• Email: barneswm@wustl.edu

When plant disease occurs, it can be devastating to farmers and consumers. Pesticides are often employed in an attempt to limit spread, further adding to the total cost of disease.

• Email: rbart@danforthcenter.org

Interdisciplinary questions surrounding bacterial small molecule production

• Email: jblodgett@wustl.edu

Our lab studies microbial metabolisms and their influence on biogeochemical cycling using an interdisciplinary approach.

• Email: abose@wustl.edu

I am a biogeochemist interested the ways in which the evolution of life on Earth and the evolution of the Earth`s environment have affected one another over the course of Earth history.

• Email: abradley@eps.wustl.edu

plant systematics, taxonomy, floristics, phylogenomic diversification

• Email: monica.carlsen@mobot.org

Plant-Microbe Interactions, Duckweed Biology, stress response, spatial organization, gene regulation

• Email: coxkevin@wustl.edu

My research interests involve the systematics, floristics and ecology of the family Araceae (philodendron family).

• Email: tcroat@wustl.edu

Cytoskeleton, microtubules, molecular motors, optical molecular imaging, plant biology

• Email: ramdixit@wustl.edu

Gene regulation, host-pathogen interactions, biochemistry, microbial pathogenesis, pathogenic fungi, yeast, glycobiology, biosynthetic pathways, blood-brain barrier, host response

• Email: doering@wustl.edu

Signal transduction, centrioles, cilia, human ciliopathies

• Email: dutcher@wustl.edu

Inflorescence architecture, e.g. the number, length and angle of branches and flowers, is a primary determinant of yield, regulating seed number and harvesting ability.

• Email: aeveland@danforthcenter.org

Microbial biogeochemistry, stable isotope geochemistry, microbial mats, carbon cycling, sulfur cycling, Earth history

• Email: dfike@wustl.edu

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli; microbial pathogenesis; vaccine development; diarrheal disease

• Email: jflecken@wustl.edu

I am interested in understanding plant evolution on a broad scale, why some species and genera are so successful (sometimes even invasive) and why other closely related taxa are rare or threatened.

• Email: peter.hoch@mobot.org

Biochemistry, enzymology, plant biology, protein engineering, protein structure, structural biology

• Email: jjez@biology2.wustl.edu

We are fascinated by the elegant and diverse forms that plants can take, and we explore the biological basis of this diversity.

• Email: ekellogg@danforthcenter.org

Bacteria, gene expression, protein structure, plant biosensors, cytochromes

• Email: kranz@biology.wustl.edu

Plant-pathogen interactions, bacterial pathogenesis, virulence mechanisms, auxin, genetics, regulation of gene expression

• Email: kunkel@biology.wustl.edu

Cell cycle, cytoskeleton, cell size, bacteriology

• Email: plevin@wustl.edu

plant defense optimization, circadian rhythm, tissue type impact

• Email: bmansfeld@wustl.edu

Synthetic Biology; Systems Biology; Metabolic Engineering; Protein Engineering; Genetic Circuits

• Email: tsmoon@wustl.edu

Circadian clock in plant growth, physiology and development

• Email: dnusinow@danforthcenter.org

Malaria, metabolism, microbiology, parasitology, drug development, diagnostics

• Phone: 314-747-2370
• Email: odom_a@wustl.edu

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My research focuses on the genetic basis of evolution in plants: how is the genetic variation that we find within a species shaped by natural selection, population history, and other evolutionary forces?

• Email: kolsen@wustl.edu

Bioenergy, membrane proteins, photosynthesis, redox processes, systems biology

• Email: pakrasi@wustl.edu

Heterotrimeric G-proteins, abscisic acid, G-proteins, molecular genetics, biochemistry, genomics, proteomics, protein-protein interactions

• Email: spandey@danforthcenter.org

Huntington’s disease, Polyglutamine Aggregation, Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, Phase transitions in cell biology, Self-assembly, Transcriptional regulation, Small-scale Systems Biology & Interaction Networks

• Email: pappu@wustl.edu

I am broadly interested in the effects of genetic and ecological processes on population dynamics of invasive and rare plants. My research addresses questions that lie at the interface of population ecology and population genetics.

• Email: epardini@wustl.edu

The ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, with a focus on wild populations of herbaceous plant hosts and their powdery mildew pathogens.

• Phone: 314-935-8282
• Email: rpenczykowski@wustl.edu

Climate change, Alpine botany, Ethnobotany, Tropical ecology, Agroecology, Traditional knowledge and science, Biocultural collections

• Email: jan.salick@mobot.org

Bacteria, gene regulation, molecular genetics, microbiology, pathogenesis, transcription, infectious disease

• Email: stallings@wustl.edu

The Topp Lab takes a phenomics approach to study crop root growth dynamics in response to environmental stress such as drought and rhizosphere competition…

• Email: ctopp@danforthcenter.org

I maintain a diverse and interdisciplinary research program aimed at answering fundamental questions in eukaryotic cell biology, evolution and development using the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Chlamydomonas) and Volvox carteri (Volvox).

• Email: jumen@danforthcenter.org

Defining how ubiquitin and other post-translational modifiers contribute to cellular regulation and turnover and how the phytochrome photoreceptor system controls plant and microbial development.

• Email: rdvierstra@wustl.edu

Bacterial pathogenesis, type IV secretion, macrophage, immunology, disease

• Email: jvogel@wustl.edu

Microbial pathogenesis, functional genomics, virology, genome analysis, computational biology

• Email: davewang@wustl.edu

Translation, Ribosome, RNA, Fidelity, peptide-bond formation, pre-steady state kinetics, translational regulation

• Email: hzaher@wustl.edu

Synthetic biology, Metabolic engineering, regulatory systems, cellular biosensor, biofuels, biomaterials

• Email: fzhang29@wustl.edu