Joanne Chory

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Joanne Chory
Nationality American
Fields Plant Biology
Institutions Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Alma mater AB, Biology, Oberlin College PhD, Microbiology, University of Illinois
Doctoral advisor Samuel Kaplan
Known for Plant hormone biology, retrograde signaling, photobiology
Notable awards Genetics Society of America Medal (2012)

Kumho Award in Plant Molecular Biology (2004)
Scientific American 50: Research Leader in Agriculture (2003)
L'Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science (2000)

American Society of Plant Biologists, Charles Albert Schull Award (1995)
Website
http://www.salk.edu/faculty/chory.html

Joanne Chory is an American plant biologist and geneticist. Chory is a professor and director of the Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and a investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.[1] She holds the Howard H. and Maryam R. Newman Chair in Plant Biology. She is also an adjunct professor in the Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, UC San Diego.[2]

Biography

She obtained her bachelor's degree in Biology from Oberlin College, Ohio, and her PhD in Microbiology from the University of Illinois. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Medical School in the lab of Frederick M. Ausubel.[3] In 1988 she joined the Salk Institute as an Assistant Professor.

Honors and awards

2015 Elected to the American Philosophical Society [4]

2012 Genetics Society of America Medal [5]

2011 Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society [6]

2009 Elected Foreign Associate, Académie des Sciences, France

2008 Member, German National Academy of Sciences

2006 Associate Member, EMBO

2005 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

2004 Kumho Award in Plant Molecular Biology [7]

2003 Scientific American 50: Research Leader in Agriculture

2000 L'Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science

1999 Elected Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences

1998 Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

1997 Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute [8]

1995 Charles Albert Schull Award, awarded by American Society of Plant Biologists

1994 National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research (1994)

Scientific contributions

Chory is interested in identifying the mechanisms by which plants respond to changes in their light environment.[9] Light signals are required for the induction and regulation of many developmental processes in plants. She has participated in research dissecting this complex process by isolating mutations that alter light-regulated seedling development in Arabidopsis.[10][11] Her work has identified mutants that are deficient in the phytochrome photoreceptors and in nuclear-localized repressors and has also revealed that steroid hormones control light-regulated seedling development. Dr. Chory's lab has been involved in the manipulation of the biosynthetic pathway for these steroids that altered the growth and development of plants and identification of the putative steroid receptor, a transmembrane receptor kinase.[12] Her group has also contributed towards the understanding of chloroplast to nuclear retrograde signaling [13][14] and plant shade avoidance responses.[15][16]

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