Christoph Benning
Mechanisms of lipid trafficking; regulation of membrane lipid homeostasis; control of carbohydrate and seed oil metabolism in developing seeds.

Susanne Hoffmann-Benning
Mechanisms of plant growth and development; cell wall and cuticle biosynthesis

Cornelius Barry
Tomato fruit ripening and trichome biology

Eva Farre
Molecular mechanisms of the plant circadian clock; role of circadian rhythms in plant physiology

Gregg Howe
Regulation of Plant Anti-herbivore Defense

Jianping Hu
Molecular Mechanisms of Peroxisome Biogenesis and Function

Dan Jones
Mass spectrometric analysis of biological molecules

Robert Last
Functional genomics of nutritionally important compounds and stress adaptation processes

Beronda Montgomery
Molecular basis of light responses in higher plants and cyanobacteria.

Katherine Osteryoung
Plastid and cyanobacterial cell division machineries

Yair Shachar-Hill
Metabolic flux analysis of plant central metabolism

Thomas Sharkey
Biochemistry and biophysics of carbon assimilation and exchange with the environment

Shinhan Shiu Evolutionary and comparative genomics

Hideki Takahashi Mechanisms of nitrogen and sulfur uptake and metabolism

Mike Thomashow
Stress adaptation and transcriptional networks

Steve van Nocker
Understanding how genes are regulated during the course of plant development

 

 

 

 

Kevin Walker
Functional Analysis of Enzymes on Biosynthetic Pathways of Plant-derived Bioactive Compounds

David Kramer
Energetics and the control of photosynthesis

Danny Ducat
Cyanobacterial biology and biotechnology