Associate Professor
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
I received by Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Earlham College (Richmond, IN) and my PhD in Microbiology at the University of Wisconsin. My doctoral thesis focused on understanding the biochemistry of vitamin B12 biosynthesis in archaea. Next, I performed postdoctoral research with Dr. Joanne Chory at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA. There, I changed my research focus to eukaryotic cell biology to understand how chloroplasts signal to the nucleus to control gene expression. Since 2018, I have been a faculty member at the University of Arizona in the School of Plant Sciences. My laboratory studies how plants sense stress in their environment and use intracellular signaling mechanisms to acclimate. We are particularly interested in the role chloroplasts and photosynthesis play in these signaling pathways.
(CS-19-1) Control of chloroplast turn-over and cell death by reactive oxygen species
Monday, August 7, 2023
3:18 PM – 3:38 PM EDT