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| ITO Faculty | Research Areas |
| Milo
Aukerman DuPont |
Flowering time in Arabidopsis, nitrogen utilization, small RNAs and gene silencing |
Harsh Bais |
Rhizosphere Biology, Root Exudation, Root-Root, Root-Microbe and Root-Nematode Communications, Chemical Genomics |
| Robin
Buell TIGR |
Plant genomics, rice, potato, disease resistance, Arabidopsis |
| Sean Coughlan |
Plant molecular biology, gene expression microarray analysis, bioinformatics |
| Pam
Green University of Delaware (DBI, PLSC, CMS) |
Post-transcriptional control of gene
expression; Regulation of mRNA stability; Regulation and function of ribonucleases; functional genomics of non-coding RNAs, marine environmental biotechnology |
| Jim
Hawk University of Delaware (PLSC) |
Crop plant breeding with an emphasis on breeding for insect pest, disease, and drought resistance |
| Richard
Howard Dupont, Crop Genetics Research |
Fungal cell biology, basic biology of host-plant fungal-pathogen interactions, plant anatomy, growth and development applications in biology of modern cytological technique |
| Anthony
Kinney DuPont |
Biochemical genetics and metabolic engineering of lipid, carbohydrate and amino acid biosynthetic pathways, protein engineering for improved soybean proteins used in human food and animal feed, production of novel food oils in soybean |
| Jung-Youn
Lee University of Delaware (DBI, PLSC) |
Cell-to-cell communication through plasmodesmata in plants |
| Blake
Meyers University of Delaware (DBI, PLSC) |
Structure/function studies of plant disease resistance genes, and whole-genome methods to analyze plant gene expression |
| John
Quackenbush Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
Bioinformatics, gene expression, microarray analysis, comparative genomics, orthologs and paralogs, orthologues and paralogues, gene indices |
Pablo Rabinowicz |
Genomics of maize and other plants, DNA methylation applied to genomic sequencing, DNA replication in Arabidopsis |
| J.
Antoni Rafalski DuPont |
Plant genomics; molecular marker technology, SNPs, maize sequence diversity, association mapping, linkage disequilibrium, DNA chips, bioinformatics |
| Hajime
Sakai DuPont |
Seed and flower development in Arabidopsis and rice |
| Janine
Sherrier University of Delaware (DBI, PLSC) |
Plant-microbe molecular interactions, plant proteomics |
| Thomas
Sims University of Delaware (PLSC) |
Soil and environmental chemistry; fate, transport, and management of nutrients and trace metals |
| Donald
Sparks University of Delaware (PLSC) |
Soil metal chemistry and the impact on metals in plants |
| Chris
Town TIGR |
Genome sequencing and annotation; EST Sequencing, expression and mapping studies; transcription networks and promoter analysis |
| Byung-Chun
Yoo DuPont |
Metabolic Engineering,
Carbon Allocation Yield Enhancement and Gene |
| Quinn
Zhu DuPont |
Metabolic engineering to produce products for human nutrition and health |