LECTURE: Nutritional Genomics: Manipulating Plant Micronutrients to Improve Human Health

You are invited to a free public lecture by

Professor Mary-Lou Guerinot, Dartmouth College USA

Current President of the American Society of Plant Biologists and visitor to the ComBio2004 meeting at UWA

Nutritional Genomics: Manipulating Plant Micronutrients to Improve Human Health

Biographical Note:

Mary Lou Guerinot is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Vice Provost of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. She is also the President of the American Society of Plant Biologists. She earned her PhD in Biology from Dalhousie University in 1979. After completing postdoctoral studies at the University of Maryland and the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, she came to Dartmouth as an Assistant Professor in 1985. She was chair of the Department of Biological Sciences from 1994 to 1998 and served as the Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Sciences from 1998 to 2001. Mary Lou is a plant molecular geneticist whose principal expertise and research interests are in the area of metal transport and regulation of gene expression by metals. She has focused on iron because increasing the ability of plants to take up iron could have a dramatic impact on both plant nutrition and human health. Iron deficiency afflicts more than 3 billion people worldwide, and plants are the principal source of iron in most diets. She has employed the tools available in the model plant Arabidopsis to identify genes involved in iron homeostasis. Her work also has applications for environmental remediation with the goal of using metal-accumulating plants to remove toxic metals from the soil. In addition to her work on Arabidopsis, Mary Lou studies aspects of metal transport and regulation in the Bradyrhizobium/soybean symbiosis

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