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plant morphogenesis is the major theme of the lab. Each person who
comes into the lab typically develops their own project and we currently
are focusing upon several areas that seek to advance a mechanistic
understanding of how plant cells function during growth and development.
Deb Fisher is the lab manager and in addition to keeping the lab running,
she is interested in the nature of spatial cues that are involved
in organizing the cortical microtubule array. She also serves as production
editor for the development of Web-based instructional tutorials. Ram
Dixit, a post-docotoral fellow, is interested in knowing the spatial-temporal
behavior of cell cycle regulatory components during plant mitosis
and how various cytoskeletal elements are organized during cell division.
Adam Marcus is a fourth year graduate student who is interested in
knowing how structural and motor proteins affect microtubule function.
He is currently working in a collaborative project with the laboratory
of Hong Ma, that seeks to understand the role that KATA plays in plant
meiosis and mitosis. Chris Ambrose is a second year graduate student
who is exploring a few possibilities for his thesis research; he is
presently characterizing inducible promoters for use in genetic screens
to find conditional mutants and he is also working on developing useful
vital markers for the actin component of the plant cytoskeleton. Matt
Wolfe is an undergraduate researcher who is looking at the behavior
of microtubules in guard cells. Dan Henning, and Andy Miller are new
undergraduate researchers who are learning cell and molecular techniques
that they will use in future projects. |
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