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Founded in 1998, the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is home to over 130 scientists who are conducting fundamental research with short-, mid- or long-term applied goals.  Research team leaders, referred to as Principal Investigators, have strong interdisciplinary research skills with diverse training and are committed to collaborations between research groups within the Danforth Center, among the Danforth Center Alliance, and with researchers across the globe.

Dr. Ivan Baxter:

Dr. Roger Beachy: Virus infection and control of virus disease; regulation of gene expression

Dr. Howard Berg:

Dr. Shunhong Dai: Plant-virus interaction; transcriptional regulation

Dr. Claude Fauquet: Cassava improvement, virus biology, virus resistance

Dr. Eliot Herman: Oil and protein composition of soybean seed

Dr. Leslie Hicks:

Dr. Tahzeeba Hossain:

Dr. Jan Jaworski: Oil seed biotechnology

Dr. Joe Jez: Natural product synthesis and plant hormone signaling

Dr. Toni Kutchan: Molecular genetics of natural product formation

Dr. Mark Manary:

Dr. Jonathan Markham: Sphingolipid metabolism and signaling

Dr. Sona Pandey:

Dr. Mark Running: Meristem function , flower development and lipid posttranslational modification

Dr. Richard Sayre:

Dr. Monica Schmidt: Value-added traits in soybean seeds

Dr. Dilip Shah: Plant-microbe interactions, plant defense proteins

Dr. Thomas Smith: Protein structure and function

Dr. Nigel Taylor:

Dr. Sam Wang:  signaling and metabolic functions of membrane lipids

Dr. Oliver Yu: Isoflavonoid biosynthesis


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