Jeff Dangl

Jeff Dangl is currently the John N. Couch Professor of Biology, an Associate Director of the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, a member of the UNC Curriculum in Genetics and an Adjunct Professor of microbiology and Immunology at the Univeristy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received Bachelor's degrees in Biology and English (Modern Literature) form Stanford University in 1981. His doctoral work concerned structure-funtion relationships among chimaeric monoclonal antibodies in the Genetics Department, Stanford Medical School. In 1986, he was awarded an NSF Plant Biology Fellowship for post-doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute of Plant Breeding in Cologne, Germany, in the department of Prof. Klaus Hahlbrock. In 1989, he began his own group at the Max Delbrück Laboratory, also in Cologne. In 1995, the Dangl lab moved to the UNC Chapel Hill. The Dangl lab has contributed significantly to the use of Arabidopsis as a tool to analyze plant-pathogen interactions. Jeff is a current member of the National Research council's Board of Life Sciences and a past member of the North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee, and the NSF Eukaryotic Genetics and NIH Genetics, Variation and Evolution Grants Panels. Research in the Dangl lab is funded by NIH, NSF and DOE.

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