Elliot Meyerowitz - F1000 Head of Faculty (since 01 November 2001)
Department of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, , CA, USA
BIOGRAPHY
Education:- AB Columbia University (1973)
- MPhil Yale University (1975)
- PhD Yale University (1977)
Memberships:
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, USA (1991)
- National Academy of Sciences, USA (1995)
- American Philosophical Society, USA (1998)
- President, Genetics Society of America (1999)
- Académie des Sciences, France (2002)
- Royal Society, UK (2004)
- President, Society for Developmental Biology (2005-2006)
- Council, National Academy of Sciences USA (2006-2009)
- EMBO (2008)
Research Interests:
The research work in our laboratory is directed to understanding development - what is the mechanism by which a single cell, a fertilized egg, turns into a complex multicellular organism? To find out, we study the processes of development in the laboratory plant Arabidopsis thaliana, which grows from a fertilized egg cell to a mature embryo, ready to germinate, and then to a mature plant, all in the course of a few weeks. During the course of these few weeks both root and shoot develop, and the shoot grows to produce a stem surrounded first by leaves, and then by flowers.
We concentrate on two processes in plant development - the development of flowers, and the growth of shoots.