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Diane Bassham (GDCB), Ph.D., 1993, University of Warwick, England. Plant stress responses. Signal perception and transduction during nutrient stress. Role of vacuolar autophagy in plant development and in survival under stress conditions. Mechanisms of protein transport to the vacuole.

Thomas Baum (Plant Pathology), Ph.D., Clemson, 1993. Molecular analysis of the interactions between cyst nematodes and their hosts; signal transduction during nematode infection.

Gwyn Beattie (Plant Pathology), Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1991. Molecular ecology, genetics, and physiology of plant-associated bacteria; identification of bacterial strategies for growth, survival, and pathogenesis on leaves; microbial degradation of pollutants on leaf surfaces.

Madan Bhattacharyya (Agronomy), Ph.D., Western Ontario, 1987. Recognition and signal transduction events in the soybean-Phytophthora sojae interaction; phosphoinosotide signal transduction pathway: molecular and functional characterization of phosphoinocide-specific phospholipase C(PLC) and a PLC-interacting protein.

Adam Bogdanove (Plant Pathology), Ph.D., Cornell. Bacterial plant pathogenesis and plant defense, especially bacterial type III secretion and plant disease resistance signal transduction, using genetic, molecular and biochemical approaches.

Bryony Bonning (Entomology), Ph.D., University of London, U.K. Identification and characterization of molecules involved in plant virus-aphid interactions; transgenic approaches to development of aphid-resistant plants.

Coralie Lashbrook (Horticulture), Ph.D., University of California-Davis, 1995. Molecular mechanisms controlling abscission and dehiscence in response to abiotic stress; environmental regulation of ethylene biosynthesis and perception; transgenic approaches to improving yield potential and stress tolerance of soybeans and cotton.

W. Allen Miller (Plant Pathology, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology), Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1984. Translational control of gene expression in plants; replication of plant RNA viruses.

David Oliver (GDCB), Ph.D., Cornell University, 1975. Control of gene expression by light and other environmental factors, mitochondrial function, signal transduction in plants, heavy metals in plants.

Steven Rodermel (GDCB), Ph.D., Harvard, 1986. Organelle biogenesis. Mechanisms of intracellular communication. Thylakoid membrane assembly and regulation of photosynthesis.

Marty Spalding (GDCB), Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1979. Metabolic regulation of gene expression in plants and algae. Signal perception, signal transduction and gene regulation in photosynthetic cells in response to changes in carbon availability. Photosynthetic carbon metabolism and carbon partitioning in photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic plant cells.

Steve Whitham (Plant Pathology), Ph.D., Berkeley, 1995. Genetics and molecular genetics of plant-virus interactions; signaling in plant stress responses.

Roger Wise (USDA-ARS and Plant Pathology), Ph.D., Michigan State. 1983. Molecular signaling in cereal-host/fungal-pathogen interactions; nuclear-mitochondrial interactions in maize.

Bing Yang (GDCB), Ph.D., Kansas State University, 2000. Molecular plant/microbe interaction, host disease susceptible and resistant responses to pathogen infection, and bacterial pathogenesis in rice/Xanthomonas oryzae pathosystem.