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Name Email/phone Interests include:
Brown, Kathleen  
  • Professor of Postharvest Physiology
kbe@psu.edu
814-863-2260
   (University Park) 		Ethylene biology. Regulation of root development. Root responses to edaphic stress. Identification and mapping of traits for adaption to edaphic stress.
Bryant, Donald  
  • Ernest C. Pollard Professor of Biotechnology
  • Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
dab14@psu.edu
814-865-1992
   (University Park) 		Photosynthesis, structure-function relationships of proteins, gene regulation, and microbial physiology. Cyanobacteria and green sulfur bacteria.
Curtis, Wayne  
  • Professor of Chemical Engineering
wrc2@psu.edu
814-863-4805
   (University Park) 		Regulation and signal transduction in plant secondary metabolism. Phytoremediation of hydrocarbons. Commercial chemical production in plants and plant tissue culture.
Cyr, Richard  
  • Professor of Biology
rjc8@psu.edu
814-865-6416
   (University Park) 		Plant cell and developmental biology. Biochemical, genetic, molecular genetic and cell biology of the cytoskeleton. Mitosis, with emphasis on spindle assembly.
Eissenstat, David  
  • Professor of Woody Plant Physiology
  • Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Ecology
dme9@psu.edu
814-863-3371
   (University Park) 		Plant physiological ecology. Root biology and physiology. Plant carbon and nutrient economies.
Koide, Roger  
  • Professor of Horticultural Ecology
rxk13@psu.edu
814-863-0710
   (University Park) 		Ecology and physiology of plants and their mycorrhizal fungi.
Lynch, Jonathan  
  • Professor of Plant Nutrition
jpl4@psu.edu
814-863-2256
   (University Park) 		Plant adaptation to nutrient and water stress. Global change. World hunger. Root biology.
Mullin, Chris  
  • Professor, Department of Entomology
camullin@psu.edu
814-865-2435
   (University Park) 		Toxicology of insect-plant interactions. Mechanisms of insect taste chemoreception. Biopesticide action and resistance. Phytochemical ecology.