Joanne Chory - F1000 Head of Faculty (since 13 July 2001)
Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA, USA
BIOGRAPHY
Education:- AB Oberlin College
- PhD University of Illinois
Memberships:
- Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, USA (1998)
- Member, National Academy of Sciences, USA (1999)
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2005)
- Associate Member, EMBO (2006)
- Member, German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) (2008)
- Foreign Associate, Académie des Sciences, France (2009)
Research Interests:
We are interested in identifying the mechanisms by which plants alter their shape and size in response to changes in their ambient light environment. We study both the photoreceptors and intracellular developmental pathways that control phenotypic plasticity in plants.