Gloria Coruzzi

Gloria Coruzzi, is the Carroll & Milton Petrie Professor and Chair of Biology at New York University where her lab uses genomic and system biology approaches to identify regulatory, metabolic and developmental gene networks regulated in response to carbon and nitrogen nutrient status. As part of this approach, her lab has developed bioinformatic tools to enable integration and analysis of genomic data in a systems/network view that are embodied in a webtool called "VirtualPlant". Her genomic work extends beyond Arabidopsis in a collaborative evolutionary genomic project o performed by a consortium of investigators from New York University, The New York Botanical Garden, The American Museum of Natural History and Cold Spring Harbor Labs. This group has developed bioinformatic tools that automate orthology determination and phylogenomic tree construction, which they are using to identify genes in the most primitive Gymnosperms that were involved in the evolution of seeds. A native New Yorker, Dr. Coruzzi received her Ph.D. in Molecular & Cell Biology at New York University School of Medicine where she decoded the yeast mitochondrial genome before moving on to studying plant genomes. Dr. Coruzzi's current research is funded by The National Institutes of Health, The National Science Foundation Arabidopsis 2010 Project, The NSF Plant Genome Project, and The Department of Energy.

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