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2016-present Faculty Director for Diversity and Inclusion, UA Graduate College
2015-present University Distinguished Outreach Professor, University of Arizona
2014-present Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and School of Plant
Sciences
2008-2014 Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and
School of Plant Sciences
2002-2008 Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and
School of Plant Sciences
2006-present Member, Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Genetics,
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Courses
- MGMolecular Genetics
- BTBiotechnology Techniques
- REEResearch in Ecology and Evolution
- PSGTProblem Solving with Genetic Tools
- GMNGenetic and Molecular Networks
- AGAdvanced Genetics
Grants
- University of Arizona's Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD)
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$1.2M
Active - Yr 2: University of Arizona's Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD)
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$582.6K
Active - University of Arizona Ronald E. McNair Achievement Program
Key Personnel (KP)
2022
$261.9K
Active - Arizona's Fellowship Program
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$100.0K
Active - Graduate Training in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Co-Investigator (COI)
2020
$894.0K
Active - The Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership: A Force For Change
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$82.9K
Active - Phase II of BUILDing SCHOLARS - Student Training Core
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$23.9K
Active - The Minimizing Health Disparities Program at the University of Arizona
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$52.0K
- The Minimizing Health Disparities Graduate School Preparation Program at UArizona
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$52.0K
- Minimizing Health Disparities Summer Research Program
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$52.0K
Technologies / Patents
News
- UArizona Joins Network Dedicated to Improving STEM Graduate Education
2020
- Inside the 'Turtles of the Plant World'
2016
- Diversifying the Workforce for Tomorrow's Jobs
2015
- Two From UA Appointed Regents' Professors
2015
- UA's STEM Retention to Reach Hundreds More
2015
- UA Celebrates Special Honors for Four Faculty Members
2015
- Two UA Students Named Beckman Scholars
2014
- Undergraduate Research Program Turns 20
2009
Publications (60)
Recent
- The Control of Cell Expansion, Cell Division, and Vascular Development by Brassinosteroids: A Historical Perspective
2020
- Two receptor‐like protein kinases, MUSTACHES and MUSTACHES‐LIKE, regulate lateral root development in Arabidopsis thaliana
2020
- Lateral root growth in Arabidopsis is controlled by short and long distance signaling through the LRR RLKs XIP1/CEPR1 and CEPR2
2018
- A Common Pathway of Root Growth Control and Response to CLE Peptides Through Two Receptor Kinases in Arabidopsis
2018
- The Arabidopsis Leucine-Rich Repeat Receptor Kinase BIR3 Negatively Regulates BAK1 Receptor Complex Formation and Stabilizes BAK1
2017
- Scanning for New BRI1 Mutations via TILLING Analysis
2017
- An Allelic Series of bak1 Mutations Differentially Alter bir1 Cell Death, Immune Response, Growth, and Root Development Phenotypes in Arabidopsis thaliana
2016
- Accelerated rates of protein evolution in barley grain and pistil biased genes might be legacy of domestication
2015
- AtPeptide RECEPTOR2 mediates the AtPeptide1-induced cytosolic Ca sup 2+ /sup rise, which is required for the suppression of glutamine dumper gene expression in arabidopsis roots
2014
- AtPEPTIDE RECEPTOR2 mediates the AtPEPTIDE1-induced cytosolic Ca(2+) rise, which is required for the suppression of Glutamine Dumper gene expression in Arabidopsis roots.
2014
- The receptor-like kinases GSO1 and GSO2 together regulate root growth in Arabidopsis through control of cell division and cell fate specification.
2014
- The leucine-rich repeat receptor kinase BIR2 is a negative regulator of BAK1 in plant immunity.
2014
- RLKs inArabidopsisRoot Development
2013
- Receptor-Like Kinases: Key Regulators of Plant Development and Defense
2013
- Receptor-like kinases: key regulators of plant development and defense.
2013
- Synergistic Interaction of CLAVATA1, CLAVATA2, and RECEPTOR-LIKE PROTEIN KINASE 2 in Cyst Nematode Parasitism ofArabidopsis
2013
- The receptor-like kinases GSO1 and GSO2 together regulate root growth in Arabidopsis through control of cell division and cell fate specification
2013
- Notes from the Underground: Receptor-like kinases in arabidopsis root development
2013
- Synergistic interaction of clavata1, clavata2, and receptor-like protein kinase 2 in cyst nematode parasitism of arabidopsis
2013
- The tyrosine-sulfated peptide receptors PSKR1 and PSY1R modify the immunity of Arabidopsis to biotrophic and necrotrophic pathogens in an antagonistic manner
2013
- Receptor-like Kinases in Plants
2012
- XYLEM INTERMIXED WITH PHLOEM1, a leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase required for stem growth and vascular development in Arabidopsis thaliana
2012
- A few standing for many: embryo receptor-like kinases
2011
- Partnership for Research Education in Plants (PREP): Involving high school students in authentic research in collaboration with scientists
2011
- CLAVATA signaling pathway receptors of Arabidopsis regulate cell proliferation in fruit organ formation as well as in meristems.
2011
- Partnership for Research & Education in Plants (PREP): Involving High School Students in Authentic Research in Collaboration with Scientists
2011
- PEPR2 is a second receptor for the Pep1 and Pep2 peptides and contributes to defense responses in Arabidopsis.
2010
- Intragenic suppression of a trafficking-defective brassinosteroid receptor mutant in Arabidopsis.
2010
- Prepping Students for Authentic Science.
2008
- Two receptor-like kinases required together for the establishment of Arabidopsis cotyledon primordia
2008
- RPK1 and TOAD2 are two receptor-like kinases redundantly required for arabidopsis embryonic pattern formation
2007
- Sowing the seeds of dialogue: public engagement through plant science.
2007
- Functional analysis of receptor-like kinases in monocots and dicots
2006
- Meristems in the movies: Live imaging as a tool for decoding intercellular signaling in shoot apical meristems
2006
- CYP90C1 and CYP90D1 are involved in different steps in the brassinosteroid biosynthesis pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana
2005
- CLAVATA1 dominant-negative alleles reveal functional overlap between multiple receptor kinases that regulate meristem and organ development
2003
- Arabidopsis brassinosteroid-insensitive dwarf12 mutants are semidominant and defective in a glycogen synthase kinase 3β-like kinase
2002
- BAK1, an Arabidopsis LRR Receptor-like Protein Kinase, Interacts with BRI1 and Modulates Brassinosteroid Signaling
2002
- Two putative BIN2 substrates are nuclear components of brassinosteroid signaling.
2002
- BRS1, a serine carboxypeptidase, regulates BRI1 signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana
2001
- CYP83B1, a cytochrome P450 at the metabolic branch point in auxin and indole glucosinolate biosynthesis in Arabidopsis.
2001
- T-DNA-associated duplication/translocations in Arabidopsis. Implications for mutant analysis and functional genomics
2001
- Erratum: BRS1, a serine carboxypeptidase, regulates BRI1 signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (May 8, 2001) 98:10 (5916-5921))
2001
- CYP83B1, a Cytochrome P450 at the Metabolic Branch Point in Auxin and Indole Glucosinolate Biosynthesis in Arabidopsis
2001
- PlantsP: a functional genomics database for plant phosphorylation.
2001
- Lesions in the sterol Δ sup 7 /sup reductase gene of Arabidopsis cause dwarfism due to a block in brassinosteroid biosynthesis
2000
- Biosynthetic pathways of brassinolide in Arabidopsis
2000
- Erratum: Biosynthetic pathways of brassinolide in arabidopsis (Plant Physiology (2000) 124 (201-209))
2000
- Lesions in the sterol Delta7 reductase gene of Arabidopsis cause dwarfism due to a block in brassinosteroid biosynthesis
2000
- The Arabidopsis dwf7/ste1 mutant is defective in the delta7 sterol C-5 desaturation step leading to brassinosteroid biosynthesis.
1999
- Brassinosteroid-insensitive dwarf mutants of Arabidopsis accumulate brassinosteroids
1999
- The Arabidopsis dwarf1 mutant is defective in the conversion of 24-methylenecholesterol to campesterol in brassinosteroid biosynthesis
1999
- The Arabidopsis dwf7/ste1 mutant is defective in the Δ sup 7 /sup sterol C-5 desaturation step leading to brassinosteroid biosynthesis
1999
- Identification and characterization of genes that interact with lin-12 in Caenorhabditis elegans.
1997
- Identification of transferred DNA insertions within Arabidopsis genes involved in signal transduction and ion transport
1996
- Cell-Cell Interactions: Receiving signals in the nematode embryo
1994
- Receiving signals in the nematode embryo
1994
- Cell interactions involved in development of the bilaterally symmetrical intestinal valve cells during embryogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans.
1992
- tudor, a posterior-group gene of Drosophila melanogaster, encodes a novel protein and an mRNA localized during mid-oogenesis
1991