Plant Growth & Development

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
In 2002 he was named Professor and Chair of the Biology Department at Duke University and in 2003 was named a Distinguished Professor.

EDUCATION AND BACKGROUND:
Philip Benfey graduated from the University of Paris and received his PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology from Harvard University under the guidance of Dr Philip Leder. He did post-doctoral research at Rockefeller University in the field of Plant Molecular Biology working with Dr Nam-Hai Chua and was appointed an assistant professor there in 1990. In 1991 he moved to New York University where he became an associate professor in 1996 and full professor in 2001. He was the founding director of the Center for Comparative Functional Genomics at NYU.

AWARDS:
He is the recipient of a Helen Hay Whitney post-doctoral fellowship, an NSF pre-doctoral fellowship and was named a Fellow of the American Association of Arts and Sciences in 2004.

EDITORIAL POSITIONS:
He currently serves on the editorial boards of Developmental Cell, Developmental Biology and BMC Plant Biology.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
His research focuses on plant developmental genetics and genomics.