Pamela Ronald is a professor of plant pathology and Chair of the Plant Genomics Program at UC Davis. She is a leading investigator into fundamental biological processes of grasses such as rice and switchgrass, using the tools of genomics, proteomics and informatics.
Henrik Vibe Scheller's research for JBEI focuses on the identification of glycosyltransferases and other enzymes involved in cell wall biosynthesis and determining their biochemical function. The obtained knowledge of the enzymes will be used to generate modified plants that are potentially more suitable for biofuel production.
Dominique Loque is a research scientist at JBEI. His expertise is on transporters, protein complexes, plant molecular biology and plant physiology. His ultimate goal is to create a “novel lignin”, suitable for a low cost of lignocellolusic-ethanol production. Together with his team, he is interested to indentify novel monolignols and lignans suitable for this “novel lignin” while keeping all biochemical and physical properties of the lignin. He is also interested to get better control of lignin distribution in the plant biomass thus by trying to further understand how monolignols get exported out of the cell and how they get polymerized and cross-linked to the cell wall.
Joshua spent the past 5 years (2003 to 2008) at The University of Western Australia as an Independent Research Fellow where he characterized plant organelle proteomes using biochemical and bioinformatics techniques. His research program at JBEI involves the utilization and integration of transcript, proteome, metabolome analysis methods and state of the art imaging and spectroscopy to form a detailed characterization of components involved in cell wall formation, development and maintenance.
