PMBB Members
Columbus Campus | Wooster Campus
Columbus Campus
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David Bisaro Professor, Molecular Genetics Research: Molecular biology of geminiviruses; including viral pathogenesis and regulation of viral gene expression. 201 Rightmire Hall | 1060 Carmack Road | Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: 614.292.3281 | Fax: 614.292.4466 | Email: bisaro.1@osu.edu |
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Pierluigi (Enrico) Bonello Associate Professor, Plant Pathology Research: Chemical ecology and molecular biology of tree/fungal pathogen and tree/fungal pathogen/insect interactions. Kottman Hall, Office 483C | 2021 Coffey Road | Columbus, Ohio 43210-1087 Phone: 614.688.5401 | Email: bonello.2@osu.edu |
| No Image Available | David Louis Coplin Professor, Plant Pathology Research: Molecular biology of plant-bacteria interactions using the genetics of the corn pathogen, Erwinia stewartii as a model system. 483B Kottman Hall | 2021 Coffey Road | Columbus, Ohio 43210-1087 Phone: 614.292.8503 | Fax: 614.292.4455 | Email: dave+@osu.edu |
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Biao Ding Professor, Plant Cellular & Molecular Biology Research: Structure and function of plasmodesmata, intercellular trafficking of proteins, RNAs, viruses and viroids. 207 Rightmire Hall | 1060 Carmack Road | Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: 614.247.6077 | Fax: 614.292.5379 | Email: ding.35@osu.edu |
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Venkat Gopalan Associate Professor, Biochemistry Research: Study of RNase P as a paradigm for understanding how proteins modulate RNA function and for evaluating if RNase P represents an early RNA enzyme progressing through evolutionary stages to an RNA-protein enzyme in which proteins have usurped most of the functions originally carried out by the RNA moiety. 707 Biological Sciences Building | 484 West 12th Avenue | Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: 614.292.1332 | Fax: 614.292.6773 | Email: gopalan.5@osu.edu |
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Lian-Mei (Madge) Graham Research Scientist, Plant Pathology Research: Soybean defense regulons: induced gene expression triggered by pathogen elicitors (PAMPs/MAMPs) and chemicals which cause cell death. 477B Kottman Hall | 2021 Coffey Road | Columbus, Ohio 43210-1087 Phone: (614) 292-1375 | FAX: (614) 292-4455 | Email: graham.19@osu.edu |
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Terence L. Graham Professor, Plant Pathology Research: Use of gene silencing to study induced disease resistance in soybean. Plant natural products as signal molecules for plant defense activation. 2021 Coffey Road | Columbus, Ohio 43210-1087 Phone: 614.292.1375 | FAX: 614.292.4455 | Email: graham.1@osu.edu |
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Erich Grotewold Professor, Plant Cellular & Molecular Biology Research: Establishing the architecture of plant regulatory networks. Control of plant gene expression. Trafficking of phytochemicals. Plant metabolic engineering. 218 Rightmire Hall | 1060 Carmack Road | Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: 614.292.2483 | Fax: 614.292.6345 | Email: grotewold.1@osu.edu |
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Patrice Hamel Assistant Professor, Plant Cellular & Molecular Biology Research: Maturation of c-type cytochromes in organelles, redox components and heme delivery systems in yeast mitochondria and green alga plastids. 582 Aronoff Laboratory | 318 West 12th Avenue | Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: 614.292.3817 | Fax: 614.292.6345 | Email: hamel.16@osu.edu |
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Jyan-Chyun Jang Associate Professor, Horticulture & Crop Science Research: The roles of CCCH zinc finger proteins in sugar signaling, plant development, and gene expression; The composition and function of P-bodies and stress granules in plants. 013 Rightmire Hall | 1060 Carmack Road | Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: 614.292.8496 | Fax: 614.292.5379 | Email: jang.40@osu.edu |
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Rebecca Lamb Assistant Proffessor, Plant Cellular & Molecular Biology Research: Transcription regulation of gene expression during flower development in Arabidopsis thaliana; MADS box transcription factor specificity. 518 Aronoff Laboratory | 318 West 12th Avenue | Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: 614.688.4322 | Fax: 614.292.6345 | Email: lamb.129@osu.edu |
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David Mackey Assistant Proffessor, Horticulture & Crop Science Research: Signaling in plants is perturbed by pathogen-derived effector proteins. We study how these effectors perturb the plant to benefit the pathogen and how plant-encoded resistance proteins perceive these perturbations and thereby induce defenses. 306c Kottman Hall | 2021 Coffey Road | Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: 614.292.5879 | Fax: 614.292.7162 | Email: mackey.86@osu.edu |
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Iris Meier Professor, Plant Cellular & Molecular Biology Research: Positioning and function of the plant Ran cycle; Arabidopsis nuclear pore and nuclear envelope proteins; Structure and function of long coiled-coil proteins. 244 Rightmire Hall | 1060Carmack Road | Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: 614.292.8323 | Fax: 614.292.5379 | Email: meier.56@osu.edu |
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Jim Metzger Professor, Horticulture & Crop Science Research: Physiological basis of flowering in ornamental crops, and investigates the signal transduction pathways by which environmental factors such as photoperiod and temperature lead to flowering initiation. 348 Howlett Hall | 2001 Fyffe Court | Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: 614.292.3854 | Fax: 614.292.7162 | Email: metzger.72@osu.edu |
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Thomas K. Mitchell Assistant Professor, Plant Pathology Research: Fungal biology and parasitism with an emphasis on using modern tools and techniques in molecular biology, genomics, and proteomics to elucidate the molecular underpinnings of virulence. 201 Kottman Hall | 2021 Coffey Road | Columbus, Ohio 43210 Phone: 614.292.1728 | FAX: 614.292.4455 | Email: mitchell.815@osu.edu |
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Dick Sayre Professor, Plant Cellular & Molecular Biology Research: Structure-function of photosystem II complex; metabolic engineering of cassava; functional genomics of heavy metal tolerance. 520 Aronoff Laboratory | 318 West 12th Avenue | Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: 614.292.9030 | Fax: 614.292.6345 | Email: sayre.2@osu.edu |
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Randy Scholl Associate Professor, Plant Cellular & Molecular Biology Research: The Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center (ABRC) which preserves and distributes seed and DNA stocks and provides information on this species to researchers worldwide, and research on regulation of the expression of ribosomal protein genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. 015 Rightmire Hall | 1060Carmack Road | Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: 614.292.1982 | Fax: 614.292.0603 | Email: scholl.1@osu.edu |
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David Somers Associate Professor, Plant Cellular & Molecular Biology Research: Molecular and genetic analysis of the plant circadian system. 206 Rightmire Hall | 1060Carmack Road | Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: 614.292.2551 | Fax: 614.292.6345 | Email: somers.24@osu.edu |
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Robert Tabita Professor, Microbiology Research: Biochemistry, molecular biology, microbial physiology, molecular ecology, archaea, carbon sequestration and bioenergy/biofuel production by microorganisms. 376 Biological Sciences Building | 484 West 12th Avenue | Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: 614.292.4297 | Fax: 614.292.6337 | Email: tabita.1@osu.edu |
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Desh Pal Verma Professor, Molecular Genetics Research: Mechanisms of Cell Plate Formation and Stress Regulation in Plant Cells. 240 Rightmire Hall | 1060Carmack Road | Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: 614.292.3625 | Fax: 614.292.5379 | Email: verma.1@osu.edu |
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Guo-Liang Wang Associate Professor, Plant Pathology Research: Unraveling the molecular mechanisms of host resistance to pathogens using genetic and genomic approaches, using rice as the model plant to clone disease resistance genes and genes involved in resistance responses to rice fungal and bacterial pathogens. 201 Kottman Hall | 2021 Coffey Road | Columbus OH 43210 USA Phone: (614) 292-9280 (Office) | Phone: (614) 292-8231 (Lab) | Fax (614) 292-4455 | Email: wang.620@osu.edu |
Wooster Campus
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John Finer Professor, Horticulture & Crop Science Research: Somatic embryogenesis, genetic transformation and promoter analysis in crop plants. 214 Williams Hall | 1680 Madison Avenue | Wooster, OH 44691 Phone: 330-263-3880 | Email: finer.1@osu.edu |
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David Francis Associate Professor, Horticulture & Crop Science Research: Genetic basis of field resistance, humid environment adaptation, and fruit quality, while contributing innovative strategies for crop improvement. The tomato breeding and genetics program has strengths in both the basic and applied sciences. 210 Williams Hall | 1680 Madison Avenue | Wooster, OH 44691 Phone: 330-263-3893 | Fax: 330-263-8337 | Email: francis.77@osu.edu |
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Michelle Jones Associate Professor, Horticulture & Crop Science Research: Molecular regulation of flower senescence using Petunia x hybrida as a model system because the petals are sensitive to ethylene and the plants are easy to transform. 214A Williams Hall | 1680 Madison Avenue | Wooster, OH 44691 Phone: 330.263.3885 | Fax: 330-263-3887 | Email: jones.1968@osu.edu |
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Brian McSpadden-Gardener Associate Professor, Plant Pathology Research: Molecular microbial ecology of agricultural systems. Molecular and ecological mechanisms contributing to plant disease suppression by microorganisms. 1680 Madison Avenue | Wooster, OH 44691-4096 Phone: 330.202.3565 | Fax: 330.263.3841 | Email: bbmg+@osu.edu |
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Tea Meulia Research Scientist and Head, OARDC-Molecular and Cellular Imaging Center Research: Collaborative research in microscopy and genomics. 1680 Madison Avenue | Wooster, OH 44691 Phone: 330.263.3836 | Fax: 330.202.3563 | Email: meulia.1@osu.edu |
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Richard Pratt Professor, Horticulture and Crop Science Research: Genetic basis of resistance to maize chlorotic dwarf, maize streak, northern leaf blight, and gray leaf spot diseases of maize. Use of molecular markers for gene mapping and introgression. 206 Williams Hall | 1680 Madison Avenue | Wooster, OH 44691 Phone: 330.263.3972 | Fax: 330.263.8337 | Email: pratt.3@osu.edu |
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Margaret G. (Peg) Redinbaugh Area Leader and Adjunct Professor, USDA/ARS and Plant Pathology Research: Identify and elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying the genetic and biological bases of virus resistance and tolerance in maize. 023 Selby Hall | 1680 Madison Avenue | Wooster, OH 44691-4096 Phone: 330.263.3965 | Fax: 330.263.3841 | Email: redinbaugh.2@osu.edu |
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Eric Stockinger Associate Professor, Horticulture and Crop Science Research: Molecular genetic and genomic analyses of low temperature tolerance in plants. 209 Williams Hall | 1680 Madison Avenue | Wooster, OH 44691 Phone: 330.263.3876 | Fax: 330.263.3887 | Email: stockinger.4@osu.edu |
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Esther van der Knaap Assistant Professor, OARDC- Horticulture & Crop Science Research: Molecular and genetic bases of diversity in tomato fruit form. 204A Williams Hall | 1680 Madison Avenue | Wooster, OH 44691 Phone: 330.263.3822 | Fax: 330.263.3887 | Email: vanderknaap.1@osu.edu |