| Name | Institution | Email | Interests |
|---|
| Michael Gribskov | Purdue University | gribskov@purdue.edu | Bioinformatics, Comparative Genomics, Protein Kinases |
| Jody Banks | Purdue University | banksj@purdue.edu | |
| Richard Jorgensen | University of Arizona | raj@ag.arizona.edu | chromatin
RNAi |
| Michael D. Kane | Purdue University | mdkane@purdue.edu | |
| Carolyn Napoli | University of Arizona | cnapoli@ag.arizona.edu | chromatin |
| Burkhard Schulz | Purdue University, Dept. Horticulture | bschulz@purdue.edu | Immunophilins, ABC transporter, auxin transport, functional genomics |
| Robert W. M. Sablowski | John Innes Centre | robert.sablowski@bbsrc.ac.uk | developmental biology |
| Clint Chapple | Purdue University | chapple@purdue.edu | biochemistry, lignin, secondary metabolism |
| Michael Prigge | Indiana University | mprigge@indiana.edu | |
| Patricia Springer | University of California | pspringer@ucr.edu | Leaf development |
| Dina F. Mandoli | University of Washington | mandoli@u.washington.edu | Using genomic resources from the Green BAC grant to understand the deep-time transition from water to land |
| Pablo Rabinowicz | TIGR | pablo@tigr.org | Genomics, epigenomics |
| Emily Indriolo | Purdue University | eindriolo@purdue.edu | seed free plants. ferns such as pteris, pityogramma, and ceratopteris. selaginella as well as a species to use to study the evolution of genes of interest in regards to other plant species. |
| Kenneth G. Karol | University of Washington - Seattle | kkarol@u.washington.edu | green-plant evolution |
| Uener Kolukisaoglu | University of Rostock | uener.kolukisaoglu@biologie.uni-rostock.de | ABC transporter, evolution, immunophilins, photorespiration |
| luke gumaelius | Purdue University | gumaelil@purdue.edu | evolution of land plants |
| Amber Hopf | Purdue University | hopfas@purdue.edu | Metabolomics, specifically small plant metabolites |
| Zhixiang Chen | Purdue University | zhixiang@purdue.edu | Plant defense response, plant WRKY transcription factors, RNA silencing |
| Yuki Yasumura | John Innes Centre | yuki.yasumura@bbsrc.ac.uk | Developmental Biology, Molecular Biology |
| Jack Cavers | John Innes Centre | jack.cavers@bbsrc.ac.uk | Evo-devo |
| Jill Harrison | Oxford university | Jill.Harrison@plants.ox.ac.uk | evo-devo |
| Sandra Floyd | UC Davis | skfloyd@ucdavis.edu | Evolution of plant development |
| Sarah Knapke | Purdue University | knapkes@purdue.edu | Evolution of the 3-ketoacyl-CoA synthase gene family |
| Elizabeth M Buescher | Purdue University | ebuesche@purdue.edu | |
| Clifford Weil | Purdue | cweil@purdue.edu | DNA repair and recombination; starch biosynthesis |
| Marek Elias | Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science | melias@natur.cuni.cz | GTPases, vesicular trafficking |
| James Gergel | CSHL | gergel@cshl.edu | |
| Jing-Ke Weng | Purdue University | wengj@university.edu | Lignin biosynthesis, evolution of plant phenylpropanoid pathway, cytochrome P450s. |
| Erik Vollbrecht | Iowa State University | vollbrec@iastate.edu | Plant Evo-Devo |
| Brad Hall | Iowa State University | bdhall@iastate.edu | Plant molecular genetics and transformation |
| Robert Thornburg | Iowa State University | thorn@iastate.edu | |
| Harry T. (Jack) Horner | Iowa State University | hth@iastate.edu | Heterospory in Selaginella |
| Judy Jernstedt | University of California, Davis | jjernstedt@ucdavis.edu | heterospory, angle meristem determination, angle shoots, rhizophores, roots |
| Martin Potocký | Institute of Experimental Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic | potocky@ueb.cas.cz | Plant genomics |
| John Bowman | UC Davis | jlbowman@ucdavis.edu | development |
| Dan Szymanski | Purdue University | dszyman@purdue.edu | Morphogenesis |
| Milos Tanurdzic | CSHL | milos@cshl.edu | |
| Vincent | PURDUE | vmedward@purdue.edu | |
| Mitsuyasu Hasebe | National Institute for Basic Biology | mhasebe@nibb.ac.jp | EvoDevo |
| Michael Gutensohn | Institute of Plant Physiology, MLU Halle-Wittenberg | gutensohn@pflanzenphys.uni-halle.de | Chloroplast protein import |
| Anders Nilsson | department of medical biochemistry and microbiology, Uppsala University | anders.nilsson@imbim.uu.se | Carbon and energy metabolism |
| Sheila McCormick | Plant Gene Expression Center | sheilamc@nature.berkeley.edu | pollen development |
| Ryan Kirkbride | UC Davis | rkirkbride@ucdavis.edu | |
| John E Fowler, Jr | Oregon State University | fowlerj@science.oregonstate.edu | Cell signaling and morphogenesis, gene evolution and phylogeny |
| Elisabeth Rutherford | Purdue University | liz@purdue.edu | |
| Jane Langdale | University of Oxford | jane.langdale@ox.ac.uk | meristem and leaf development/evolution |
| Eric M. Engstrom | The College of William and Mary | emengs@wm.edu | Developmental Genetics. |
| john mundy | university of copenhagen | mundy@my.molbio.ku.dk | |
| Filip Vandenbussche | University Gent | filip.Vandenbussche@ugent.be | plant hormones |
| Stefan Rensing | University of Freiburg | stefan.rensing@biologie.uni-freiburg.de | Comparative genomics of plants |
| Benoit Menand | John Innes Centre | benoit.menand@bbsrc.ac.uk | Land plants evolution, developmental biology |
| John E. Fowler | Oregon State University | fowlerj@science.oregonstate.edu | plant cell biology, development, cytoskeleton and cell signaling |
| Claude dePamphilis | Penn State University | cwd3@psu.edu | comparative genomics; evolution of developmental regulators, especially homologs of floral regulators; polyploidy and fates of duplicated genes; |
| Michal Grunt | Charles University in Prague | grunt.m@centrum.cz | |
| Diego Mauricio Riano Pachon | University of Potsdam | diriano@uni-potsdam.de | transcription factors, bioinformatics |
| Eugene V Shakirov | Texas A&M University | eugene-shakirov@neo.tamu.edu | telomeres, DNA |
| Amy Litt | New York Botanical Garden | alitt@nybg.org | plant evolution and development |
| Jeffrey Long | Salk Institute for Biological Sciences | long@salk.edu | |
| cedric finet | ENS Lyon Reproduction and Development of Plants UMR 5667 | cedric.finet@ens-lyon.fr | Evo-Devo |
| Gerard Manning | Salk Institute for Biological Studies | manning@salk.edu | Genomics and evolution of protein kinases |
| Lingjing Chen | University of California | lchen2@nature.berkeley.edu | |
| Zengyan Xie | Peking University | xiezy@mail.cbi.pku.edu.cn | |
| Victor A. Albert | University of Oslo | victor.albert@nhm.uio.no | evo-devo, intragenic repeats & phenotypic evolution, etc. |
| Michael Dunn | Cameron University | michaeld@cameron.edu | Seedless vascular plants of Oklahoma |
| Joshua Der | Utah State University | jpder@biology.usu.edu | Fern speciation genetics |
| John Larkin | Louisiana State Univeristy | jlarkin@lsu.edu | development, genetics, cell cycle |
| Jin Miao | Peking Univ. | jin.miao@pku.edu.cn | |
| Chi-Kuang Wen | Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, CAS | cwen@sippe.ac.cn | ethylene signal transduction |
| Elizabeth R. Waters | San Diego State University | ewaters@sciences.sdsu.edu | Gene family evolution,heat shock |
| Mao-Sen Liu | Institute of Plant Biology, National Taiwan University | d89226001@ntu.edu.tw | stress biology |
| Michael G. Hahn | University of Georgia | hahn@ccrc.uga.edu | Immunological studies of cell walls during growth and development |
| Maria J Pena | University of Georgia | mpena@ccrc.uga.edu | Plant cell wall |
| Garrett Anderson | Salk Institute for Biological Studies | ganderson@salk.edu | Chlamydomonas, plant evolution |
| Elizabeth Barker | University of Regina, SK, Canada | barker1e@uregina.ca | Regulatory genes |
| XIAOFAN ZHOU | Penn State Univ. | xxz135@psu.edu | |
| Aldwin Anterola | Southern Illinois University Carbondale | anterola@siu.edu | Pathway Evolution |
| Bala Rathinasabapathi | University of Florida | brath@ufl.edu | Functional genomics & Biochemistry |
| John C. Larkin | Louisiana State University | jlarkin@lsu.edu | cell cycle/development |
| Alonso Rodriguez-Navarro | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | alonso.rodriguez@upm.es | potassium and sodium transporters, salt tolerance |
| Kathrin Schrick | Keck Graduate Institute | Kathrin_Schrick@kgi.edu | Embryogenesis, sterol biosynthesis, START domain proteins, homeodomain transcription factors |
| Michael J Axtell | Penn State University | mja18@psu.edu | microRNAs, siRNAs, RNAi |
| Bettina Tudzynski | University of Muenster | tudzynsb@uni-muenster.de | fungal genetics, evolution of gene clusters,gibberellin genes |
| celine mouchel | University of York | cm549@york.ac.uk | evo-devo of shoot branching control |
| Guichuan Hou | Appalachian State University | houg@appstate.edu | Plant developmental cell biology; Root biology |
| Dion Durnford | UNB, Biology | durnford@unb.ca | Photosynthesis and antenna evolution |
| Jing-Ke Weng | Purdue University | wengj@purdue.edu | Lignin Biosynthesis, cytochrome P450-dependent monooxygenases, secondary metabolism |
| Jean-Michel Ane | University of Wisconsin Madison | jane@wisc.edu | Plant-microbe symbioses
Evolution |
| David G. Oppenheimer | University of Florida | doppen@botany.ufl.edu | Plant cell shape, plant actin dynamics, plant cytoskeleton organization |
| zhouxin | SIPPE | xzhou@sippe.ac.cn | |
| Luiz Gustavo Guedes Corrêa | Potsdam University | correa@uni-potsdam.de | Transcription factors |
| Ingo Dreyer | University of Potsdam | dreyer@uni-potsdam.de | Plant Biophysics
Ion channels in Plants |
| Karen A. Hicks | Kenyon College | hicksk@kenyon.edu | photoperiodism, circadian regulation, sexual reproduction |
| Bernd Mueller-Roeber | University of Potsdam, Germany | bmr@rz.uni-potsdam.de | transcription factor, growth |
| Eric Beers | Virginia Tech | ebeers@vt.edu | |
| Lydia Gramzow | FSU Jena | lydia.gramzow@uni-jena.de | |
| tom ashfield | indiana university | tashfiel@indiana.edu | plant disease resistance |
| Todd P. Michael | Waksman Institute of Microbiology | tmichael@waksman.rutgers.edu | Diurnal and circadian transcriptional networks, thermosensing |
| Joe Ogas | Purdue University | ogas@purdue.edu | chromatin |
| Chelsea Specht | UC Berkeley | cdspecht@nature.berkeley.edu | plant molecular and developmental evolution |
| John E. Carlson | Pennsylvania State University | jec16@psu.edu | Plant genomics; plant development; cell walls |
| Rodrigo A. Gutierrez | P. Universidad Catolica de Chile | rgutierrez@bio.puc.cl | Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Regulation of Gene Expression, Nitrogen metabolism. |
| Ian Henderson | UCLA | irh@ucla.edu | |
| michiel kwantes | MPIZ Cologne Germany | kwantes@mpiz-koeln.mpg.de | |
| Dae-Yeon Suh | University of Regina | suhdaey@uregina.ca | The chalcone synthase superfamily |
| Jill Harrison | Oxford University | jill.harrison@plants.ox.ac.uk | Meristems and what they give rise to |
| Qihui Zhu | University of Georgia | qzhu@uga.edu | transposable element |
| Nicola T. Pitsch | University of Duesseldorf, Germany | Nicola.Pitsch@uni-duesseldorf.de | Biology |
| Masson Patrick | University of Wisconsin-Madison | phmasson@wisc.edu | Molecular Genetic Analysis of Plant Growth Behavior |
| Mitsuyasu Hasebe | National Institute for Basic Biology | mhasebe@nibb.ac.jp | evolution |
| Chaoyang Cheng | National Institute of Basic Biology | chycheng@nibb.ac.jp | epigenetics |
| Shin-Ichi Morinaga | Kyushu University | smoriscb@mbox.nc.kyushu-u.ac.jp | |
| Saori Miyazaki | National Institute for basic biology | saori@nibb.ac.jp | Evolution, fertilization, signaling |
| Tomoaki NISHIYAMA | Kanazawa University | tomoakin@kenroku.kanazawa-u.ac.jp | land plant evolution |
| Takashi Murata | National Institute for Basic BIology | tkmurata@nibb.ac.jp | Cytoskeleton |
| Minoru Kubo | JST, ERATO Hasebe reprogramming evolution project | ku-bo@nibb.ac.jp | plant development, differentiation, signal transduction |
| Yuji HIWATASHI | National Institute for Basic Biology | hiwatash@nibb.ac.jp | Development, Cell division, stem cell |
| Naoki Shinohara | National institute of basic biology | shino@nibb.ac.jp | phytohormones |
| Masaki Ishikawa | JST, ERATO Hasebe Reprogramming Evolution Project | ishikam@nibb.ac.jp | Cell cycle |
| Tomomichi Fujita | Hokkaido University | tfujita@sci.hokudai.ac.jp | |
| Ryo Sotooka | The University of Tokyo | r_sotooka@nenv.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp | plant pathology |
| obaramari | JST | mobara@nibb.ac.jp | |
| Yoshikatsu Sato | JST Hasebe ERATO | yoshi@nibb.ac.jp | Photo Biology |
| Yang Xia | temasek life sciences lab | xiayang_njau@yahoo.com.cn | |
| Alison Mello | NYU | aem406@nyu.edu | plant genomics |
| Tadayoshi Hirai | Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences Gene Research Center University of Tsukuba | thirai@gene.tsukuba.ac.jp | Light signaling |
| Nagisa Sugimoto | JST | nagisa91@nibb.ac.jp | |
| Koji Mikami | Hokkaido University | komikamijp@yahoo.co.jp | Phosphatidylinositol signalling |
| Naomi Sumikawa | National Institute for Basic Biology | sumikawa@nibb.ac.jp | |
| Tsuyoshi Aoyama | National Institute for Basic Biology | t_aoyama@nibb.ac.jp | Evolution of developmental genes, meristem |
| Therese Mitros | UC Berkeley | tmitros@berkeley.edu | protein families |
| Adam Vivian-Smith | IBL, Leiden University | a.vivian-smith@ibl.leidenuniv.nl | Reproduction - angiosperms, gymnosperms, etc. Auxin. |
| Arijit Mukherjee | University of Wisconsin, Madison | amukherjee@wisc.edu | |
| F. Bryan Pickett | Loyola University of Chicago | fpicket@luc.edu | Embryogenesis, Shoot morphogenesis |
| Analilia Arroyo Becerra | Instituto Politécnico Nacional | alarroyo@ipn.mx | Plant Molecular Biology |
| Nicholas Bonawitz | Purdue University | nbonawit@purdue.edu | Lignin biosynthesis, the phenylpropanoid pathway, BAHD acyltransferases, SCPL acyltransferases |
| Youfa Cheng | UCSD | yocheng@ucsd.edu | |
| Fay-Wei Li | Department of Life Science, National Taiwan University | b94b01096@ntu.edu.tw | Evolutionary biology of ferns |
| Kenneth D. Birnbaum | New York University | ken.birnbaum@nyu.edu | Plant Genomics, Meristem Organization |
| Becky Weeks | Iowa State University | rlmauton@iastate.edu | Plant Evo-devo |
| Guenter Theissen | Friedrich Schiller University Jena | guenter.theissen@uni-jena.de | Phylogenomics of MADS-box genes |
| Guenter Theissen | Friedrich Schiller University Jena | guenter.theissen@uni-jena.de | Phylogenomics of MADS-box genes |
| Jane Geisler | Southern Illinois University Carbondale | geislerlee@plant.siu.edu | secondary metabolism, genomics, bioinformatics |
| Tom Bennett | Universiteit Utrecht | t.a.bennett@uu.nl | |
| Annette Becker | University of Bremen | annette.becker@uni-bremen.de | |
| Jesper Harholt | Laboratory for Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, LIFE, University of Copenhagen | jesh@life.ku.dk | Cell wall |
| Bong-Kwan Phee | University of Wisconsin-Madison | phee@wisc.edu | |
| Henrik Vibe Scheller | Joint Bioenergy Institute | hscheller@lbl.gov | Cell walls and glycosyltransferases |
| Dominique Loque | Joint BioEnergy Institute | dloque@lbl.gov | Ammonium Transport
Cell Wall |
| Luiz Eduardo Vieira Del Bem | UNICAMP - Brazil | dudelben@gmail.com | Cell Wall evolution, plants evolution |
| Brad Townsley | University of California, Davis | bttownsley@ucdavis.edu | |
| Tetsuya Kurata | ERATO, Japan Science and Technology | tekurata@nibb.ac.jp | Development, transcription, epigenetics |
| Anthony Gendall | La Trobe University | t.gendall@latrobe.edu.au | Evolution of ion channels |
| today | sysu | yulujun@mail2.sysu.edu.cn | |
| Iben Sørensen | The University of Copenhagen | iben@bio.ku.dk | Plant cell walls |
| Javier Palatnik | IBR | palatnik@ibr.gov.ar | microRNAs, development |
| William George Tycho Willats | The University of Copenhagen | willats@bio.ku.dk | Plant cell walls |
| Esther Zuñiga Sánchez | Instituto de Ecologia UNAM | ezuniga@ecologia.unam.mx | Plant development |
| Zhang, Xian-Chun | Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences | zhangxc@ibcas.ac.cn | |
| Andrew Charles Cuming | Leeds University | a.c.cuming@leeds.ac.uk | ABA and desiccation tolerance |
| mineko iwata | JST | miwata@nibb.ac.jp | |
| Chaoyang Cheng | Japan Science and Technology Agency, ERATO Hasebe Reprogramming Evolution Project | chycheng@nibb.ac.jp | |
| Andreas Weihe | Humboldt University Berlin | andreas.weihe@rz.hu-berlin.de | |
| Maumita Bandyopadhyay | University of Calcutta | maumita.bandyopadhyay@gmail.com | Selaginella genomics |
| kay denyer | john innes centre | kay.denyer@bbsrc.ac.uk | |
| Armando Bravo | University of Oxford | armando.bravo-garcia@plants.ox.ac.uk | |
| Michael Dacre | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies | dacre@salk.edu | Selaginella moellendorffii kinome
Kinases
Comparative genomics
Bioinformatics |
| Nicola T. Pitsch | Institute for Plant Sciences I, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf | Nicola.Pitsch@uni-duesseldorf.de | |
| Barbara J. Bliss | Penn State | bjb316@psu.edu | TCP genes, evo-devo |
| Gerhard Steger | Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf | steger@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de | |
| Inger Hakman | School of Pure and Applied Natural Sciences, University of Kalmar, SE-391 82 Kalmar, Sweden | inger.hakman@hik.se | Development, embryology |
| Andreas Zimmer | University of Freiburg | Andreas.Zimmer@biologie.uni-freiburg.de | |
| Frans Tax | University of Arizona | fetax@u.arizona.edu | receptors and signaling |
| Koen Geuten | K.U.Leuven | koen.geuten@bio.kuleuven.be | Comparative developmental genetics |
| Zhongchi Liu | University of Maryland | zliu@umd.edu | Plant Development |
| Arthur Hunt | University of Kentucky | aghunt00@uky.edu | RNA processing |
| Santosh Satbhai | Nagoya University | santoshsatbhai@gmail.com | Plant molecular biology, Genetics, Biotech |
| Christopher Frank | University of Maryland | cfrank1@umd.edu | Embryonic auxin gradient role in development. |
| Marcel Bucher | University of Cologne | m.bucher@uni-koeln.de | |
| Alan C. Christensen | University of Nebraska | achristensen2@unl.edu | |
