Bio

Positions Held

2018

Robert I. Williams Term Professor of Biology

2017

Professor, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania

2008

Member Institute of Epigenetics, University of Pennsylvania

2006

Associate Professor of Biology, University of Pennsylvania

2000

Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Pennsylvania

1998

Research Associate, Department of Biology, California Institute of Technology

1995

Postdoctoral Fellow, Meyerowitz lab, Department of Biology, California Institute of Technology

Education

1995

Ph.D., Plant Biology, University of California at Berkeley

1988

Vordiplom (BA equivalent), Technische Universität München, Weihenstephan
Awards and Honors

2019

Fellow, American Society for Plant Biologists

2017

President North American Arabidopsis Steering Executive Committee

2014-2018

Elected Member North American Arabidopsis Steering Executive Committee

2014 – 2017

Multinational Arabidopsis Steering Executive Committee,

Chair subcommittee on plant epigenetics

2010 – 2016

Lead PI, International Initiative to Elucidate the Plant Epigenome

Since 2013

Virginia Tech Life Science Seminars and Graduate Minisymposium, Keynote speaker.

Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) Main Meeting, Valencia, Spain, Session Keynote speaker.

International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR) Sydney, Session Keynote speaker.

NC Biotechnology Center-sponsored Plant Molecular Biology Symposium, Keynote Speaker.

8th Mexico-USA Plant Biology Symposium,  Plenary speaker.

International meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology, Plenary speaker

Utrecht Science for Life symposium Keynote speaker

2004

Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of Pennsylvania

1995

Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship