Daniel H Chitwood
Assistant Member
Department of Plant Science
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
United States of America
Biography
Dan is currently an Assistant Member at the Danforth Plant Science Center. His research focuses on molecular mechanisms underlying diversity in plant morphology and designing morphometric methods to model plant development. Current work in the lab aims on developing further genetic and statistical resources to accommodate high-throughput phenomics and determining the genetic basis of whole plant phenotypes. Another direction of study is exploring natural variation in cell-type specific transcriptomic profiles.
Research Interest
Gene Expression, Gene Expression Regulation, Plant, Genes, Homeobox, Genes, Plant, Genes, Regulator, Genes, Reporter, Heterochromati
Publications
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Irvine DV, Zaratiegui M, Tolia NH, Goto DB, Chitwood DH, Vaughn MW, Joshua-Tor L, Martienssen RA. Argonaute slicing is required for heterochromatic silencing and spreading. Science. 2006 Aug 25;313(5790):1134-7.
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Nogueira FT, Sarkar AK, Chitwood DH, Timmermans MC. Organ polarity in plants is specified through the opposing activity of two distinct small regulatory RNAs. InCold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 2006 Jan 1 (Vol. 71, pp. 157-164). Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
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Lee JY, Baum SF, Alvarez J, Patel A, Chitwood DH, Bowman JL. Activation of CRABS CLAW in the nectaries and carpels of Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell. 2005 Jan 1;17(1):25-36.
