Olena Vatamaniuk is Professor at the Soil and Crop Sciences Section and Plant Biology Section at Cornell University. She serves as Director of Graduate Studies for the Soil and Crop Sciences Graduate Field at Cornell.
Olena obtained her bachelor’s degree in Botany at the Lviv State University (Ukraine) and Ph.D. in Plant Physiology at Lviv State and Kyiv State Universities (Ukraine). She did her postdoctoral studies in molecular biology, biochemistry and genetics at the University of Pennsylvania (PA, USA). She joined the Cornell faculty in 2005. In 2011, she was promoted to tenured Associate Professor and in 2019 to Full Professor.
The Vatamaniuk lab studies molecular mechanisms of mineral nutrient transport and its regulation. The lab uses multidisciplinary approaches including CRISPR/CAS9-mediated genome editing, scanning electron microscopy and synchrotron x-ray fluorescence imaging for the identification and characterization of genes controlling transition metal transport and its relationship to reproduction seed/grain yield and nutritional quality.
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