Professor
University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont
I completed my Ph.D. in Cell Biology at UCSF in the lab of Dr. Cynthia Kenyon, studying the genetics of homeotic gene control of cell migration in C. elegans. I then made the switch to plants and bacteria, doing a postdoc at Stanford with Dr. Sharon Long, using genetics to probe the role of the plant in the development of symbiotic root nodules in legumes, which led me directly to root development and the formation of lateral roots. I've been exploring this area for some time, focusing on questions of evolution and development. More recently I have begun to examine the role of the environment on nodulation and root architecture. I have been at the University of Vermont since 2000.