Federica Brandizzi (Ph.D., Rome , Italy ), PLANT RESEARCH LAB - The dynamic of protein transport within the secretory pathway of plants using molecular biology and advanced bioimaging approaches.

Brad Day (Ph.D., Tennessee ), PLANT PATHOLOGY - Molecular-genetics of host-pathogen interactions and resistance signaling in plants.

Frank B. Dazzo (Ph.D., Florida), MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS - Mechanisms of beneficial plant-bacteria interactions; in situ microbial ecology using computer assisted-microscopy.

Dean DellaPenna (Ph.D., U.C. Davis), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - Plant biochemistry, especially relating to phytochemicals of importance to human nutrition, and structural and functional aspects of the plant cell wall.

Dennis Fulbright (Ph.D., UC Riverside), PLANT PATHOLOGY - Cytoplasmic genetic agents in phytopathogenic fungi and bacteria.

Raymond Hammerschmidt (Ph.D., Kentucky), PLANT PATHOLOGY - Biochemistry and physiology of resistance and induced resistance to disease in plants; fungal pathogenesis of plants.

Jianping Hu ( Ph.D. , Georgia ), MSU-DOE PLANT RESERACH LAB - Regulation of plant peroxisome functions.

Ken Keegstra (Ph.D., Colorado), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, PLANT BIOLOGY, PRL - Chloroplast protein targeting; polysaccharide synthesis.

John LaPres (Ph.D., Northwestern), BIOCHEMISTRY - Molecular pharmacology and toxicogenomics of the PAS family of transcription factors.

Robert Larkin (Ph.D., Missouri ), PLANT RESEARCH LAB - Regulation of chlorophyll biosynthesis, influence of chloroplast development on nuclear gene expression, plastid signaling pathways that regulate nuclear gene expression.

Beronda Montgomery-Kaguri (Ph.D., UC-Davis), PLANT RESEARCH LAB - Molecular basis of organ-specific phytochrome responses in higher plants; light-regulated development in cyanobacteria.

John Ohlrogge (Ph.D., Michigan), PLANT BIOLOGY, PRL - Regulation of plant lipid biosynthesis; genetic engineering of plant metabolism.

Katherine Osteryoung (Ph.D., Univ. of Cal., Davis), PLANT BIOLOGY - Molecular mechanisms of plastic division in higher plants.

Jack Preiss (Ph.D., Duke), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - Regulation of bacterial glycogen and plant starch biosynthesis.

Barbara Sears (Ph.D., Duke Univ.), PLANT BIOLOGY - Genetics of replication, recombination, and repair in plant organelles.

Shin-Han Shiu (Ph.D., Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), PLANT BIOLOGY - Evolution of duplicate genes; identifying novel genes and novel cis-regulatory elements.

Michael F. Thomashow (Ph.D., UCLA), MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS - Regulation and function of genes induced in response to environmental stresses.

Steven J. Triezenberg (Ph.D., Univ. of Michigan), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - Eukaryotic gene regulation; transcriptional activation; herpesviruses; plant chromatin and histone acetylation.

Steven R. van Nocker (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison), HORTICULTURE - Plant molecular biology; genetics of flowering regulation; DNA methylation.

Jonathan Walton (Ph.D. Stanford Univ.), PLANT BIOLOGY - Molecular plant pathology; biochemistry of resistance in plants; fungal molecular biology.

John Wang (Ph.D., Rockefeller), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - Growth regulatory factors; lectins; nucleocytoplasmic transport.

Andreas Weber (Ph.D., Wuerzburg , Germany ), PLANT BIOLOGY - Biochemistry; genetics; molecular physiology of transport processes in plants.