Nationality American Fields Plant Biology | Doctoral advisor Samuel Kaplan Name Joanne Chory | |
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Alma mater AB, Biology, Oberlin CollegePhD, Microbiology, University of Illinois Notable students Jianming Li, Jason Reed, Niko Geldner, Julin Maloof, Ana Cano-Delgado, Pablo Cerdan, Meng Chen, Terrence Delaney, Jianping Hu, Yvon Jaillais, Paul Jarvis, Olivier Loudet, Todd Mockler, Danielle Friedrichsen, Manfred Gahrtz, Michael Hothorn, Hou-Sung Jung, Toshinori Kinoshita, Shai Koussevitzky, Robert Larkin, Hsou-Min Li, Enrique Lopez-Juez, Christian Fankhauser, Nobuyoshi Mochizuki, Santiago Mora-Garcia, Punita Nagpal, Michael Neff, Jennifer Nemhauser, Alan Pepper, Juan Perez Ruiz, Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, Dana Schroeder, Karin Schumacher, Asa Strand, Shinichiro Tanaka, Yi Tao, Greg Vert, Xuelu Wang, Zhiyong Wang, Xuelin Wu,Justin Borevitz, Lu-Shu Yeh,Yanhai Yin, Yunde Zhao Awards L'Oreal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science People also search for Valerie Mizrahi, Margarita Salas, Tuneko Okasaki, Eugenia Del Pino | ||
How supercharged plants could slow climate change | Joanne Chory
Joanne Chory is an American plant biologist and geneticist. Chory is a professor and director of the Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She holds the Howard H. and Maryam R. Newman Chair in Plant Biology. She is also an adjunct professor in the Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, UC San Diego.
Contents
- How supercharged plants could slow climate change Joanne Chory
- One day in the Chory Lab
- Biography
- Scientific contributions
- References
One day in the Chory Lab
Biography
She obtained her bachelor's degree in Biology from Oberlin College, Ohio, and her PhD in Microbiology from the University of Illinois. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Medical School in the lab of Frederick M. Ausubel. In 1988 she joined the Salk Institute as an Assistant Professor.
Scientific contributions
Chory is interested in identifying the mechanisms by which plants respond to changes in their light environment. Light signals are required for the induction and regulation of many developmental processes in plants. She has participated in research dissecting this complex process by isolating mutations that alter light-regulated seedling development in Arabidopsis. Her work has identified mutants that are deficient in the phytochrome photoreceptors and in nuclear-localized repressors and has also revealed that steroid hormones control light-regulated seedling development. Dr. Chory's lab has been involved in the manipulation of the biosynthetic pathway for these steroids that altered the growth and development of plants and identification of the putative steroid receptor, a transmembrane receptor kinase. Her group has also contributed towards the understanding of chloroplast to nuclear retrograde signaling and plant shade avoidance responses.
