Participating Faculty   

Dr. James R. Alfano

[PSI Faculty]
Bacterial pathogenicity of plants; Type III protein secretion and Bacterial Genomics.   Read More 
Phone: 402-472-0395

Dr. Gilles J. Basset

[PSI Faculty]
Genomics, Genetics, Enzymology, Metabolic biochemistry, Organic chemistry, Cellular biology and Metabolic engineering   Read More 
Phone: 402-472-2930

Dr. Edgar Cahoon

[PSI Faculty]
Basic and applied research on plant lipid metabolism   Read More 
Phone: 402-472-5611

Dr. Herriberto Cerrutti

[PSI Faculty]
Epigenetic mechanisms controlling gene expression and silencing in Chlamydomonas and Arabidopsis; DNA repair and recombination in the nuclear and chloroplast genomes; nucleo-cytoplasmic interactions.   Read More 
Phone: 402-472-0247

Dr. Thomas Clemente

[PSI Faculty]
Implementing plant gene transfer technologies for value-added traits and disease resistance.   Read More 
Phone: 402-472-1428

Dr. Michael E. Fromm

[PSI Faculty]
Drought and salt tolerance, using genomics approaches, particularly proteomics. Signaling pathway and how it regulates the stress response. Identifying the protein kinases and phosphatases in the pathway and the proteins they interact with.   Read More 
Phone: 402-472-2968

Dr. Steven Harris

[PSI Faculty]
Regulation of morphogenesis in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans.   Read More 
Phone: 402-472-2938

Dr. David R. Holding

[PSI Faculty]
Plant molecular genetics, seed development, maize endosperm texture and protein quality   Read More 
Phone: 402-472-1357

Dr. Sally A. Mackenzie

[PSI Faculty]
Plant mitochondrial genetics, nuclear-mitochondrial genetic interactions, genomics in legume species.   Read More 
Phone: 402-472-6997

Dr. Etsuko Moriyama

[PSI Faculty]
Bioinformatics, molecular evolution, and molecular population genetics.   Read More 
Phone: 402-472-4979

Dr. Jeffrey Mower

[PSI Faculty]
Plant comparative genomics and molecular evolution   Read More 
Phone: 402-472-2130

Dr. Julie M. Stone

[PSI Faculty]
Expanding our basic understanding of the molecular mechanisms controlling programmed cell death (PCD) in plants.   Read More 
Phone: 402-472-4902

Dr. James L. Van Etten

[PSI Faculty]
Viruses of Eukaryotic Algae   Read More 
Phone: 402-472-3168

Chi Zhang

[PSI Faculty]
Integrating and mining diverse high throughput data to extract biological insights and to address fundamental biological questions   Read More 
Phone: 402-472-1396

Dr. Bin Yu

[PSI Faculty]
Molecular mechanisms underlying small RNA metabolism and function   Read More 
Phone: 402-472-2635

Dr. Paul Staswick

[PSI Faculty Affiliate]
Plant Hormone Metabolism, Hormone Signaling, Disease resistance, Regulation of gene expression, Transgenic plants   Read More 
Phone: 402-472-5624

Dr. Raymond Chollet

[PSI Faculty Affiliate]
Regulatory protein phosphorylation in plants, Plant protein kinases and phosphatases, Photosynthetic/metabolic plant enzymes, Plant Biochemistry.   Read More 
Phone: 402-472-2936

Dr. Thomas Elthon

[PSI Faculty Affiliate]
Function of Plant Mitochondria; Plant Responses to the Environment   Read More 
Phone: 402-472-6245

Dr. Donald Weeks

[PSI Faculty Affiliate]
Genetic Engineering of crop plants for enhanced photoshynthesis, disease resistance and herbicide resistance   Read More 
Phone: 402-472-7917

Dr. T. Jack Morris

[PSI Faculty Affiliate]
Plant Viruses, Development and application of RNA plant virus vectors for transient expression of "foreign" proteins in plants.   Read More 
Phone: 402-472-8889