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Plant Biology contacts

233 Emerson Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: 607-255-5459

Chair: Jian Hua
jh299 [at] cornell.edu (jh299[at]cornell[dot]edu)
Phone: 607-255-5554

Chair's Assistant: Karin Jantz
kpg2 [at] cornell.edu (kpg2[at]cornell[dot]edu)
Phone: 607-255-4075

Director of Graduate Studies: Klaas van Wijk

Graduate Field Assistant: kpg2 [at] cornell.edu (Karin Jantz)
 

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Faculty & Senior Academics

Tenured and Tenure-track Faculty, Senior Research Associates, Senior Extension Associates, and Senior Lecturers

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Adjunct & Courtesy Faculty

These faculty have primary affiliations with other SIPS sections and Cornell units or with USDA-ARS

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Faculty Emeriti

Faculty emeriti and other retired academics

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Graduate Students

Graduate students in the Field of Plant Biology

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Academic Staff

Post-doctoral associates, research associates, extension associates, and lecturers

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Technical & Support Staff

Staff members support research scientists, maintain greenhouses and research fields, and manage administrative functions

Plant Biology News

Members of the Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems meet in Minns Graden

News

NSF awards $22.5M to continue plant-human communication projects

The Cornell-led multi-institutional Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems will continue work to transform agriculture by enabling direct two-way communication with crop plants’ internal processes.

  • Plants
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
Microscopy image of a mutant flower bud with wrinkled and irregular sepals

News

This discovery could help engineer living materials into different forms, such as the custom of growing bridges from roots in India, and breeding kale so it’s smooth instead of crinkly.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Plants
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News

Researchers studying ribosomes, AI and quantum computing are among 13 early-career professors from Cornell who’ve recently been awarded National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards.

  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Microbiology
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Actaea rhodostigma

News

Actaea rhodostigma – or the pink baneberry – the first new flowering plant species identified in New York in nearly a decade.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Plants
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News

Plants adjust to temperature changes, in part, by switching the way they express Rubisco, the protein that performs the critical first step of photosynthesis, according to new research from Cornell and partners.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Plants