Professor of Biology
Wake Forest University
Winston Salem, North Carolina
Gloria Muday is the Charles M. Allen Professor of Biology at Wake Forest University. Her research focuses on hormone and redox signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana and Solanum lycopersicum (tomato). Her laboratory studies the flavonoid biosynthetic pathways and how specific flavonol antioxidants control plant development by scavenging reactive oxygen species. The role of specific flavonols in controlling root development and gravity response, guard cell signaling, and pollen viability is being examined using Arabidopsis and tomato plants with mutations in genes encoding pathway intermediates. The localized accumulation of flavonols and reactive oxygen species is being examined by confocal microscopy. The Muday laboratory is also examining the transcriptional networks that control root developmental changes mediated by auxin and ethylene. Gloria Muday is Director for the Center for Molecular Signaling.