Dr. Todd Mockler
Principal Investigator
Department of Plant Science
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
United States of America
Biography
Todd is a Member and the Geraldine J. and Robert L. Virgil Distinguished Investigator. Prior to joining the Danforth Center in 2011, he was Associate Professor at Oregon State University. He was also a member of the Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing (part of the Computational and Genome Biology Initiative) and a member of the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program. He earned his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at the University of California – Los Angeles and his B.A. in Molecular Biology from Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Todd was a postdoctoral associate at the Salk Institute in LaJolla, California.
Research Interest
" The goal of Todd’s research is to elucidate the means to predict plant performance, responses and behaviors from genetic, epigenetic, transcriptomic data across a range of environments. Achieving this goal requires developing new computational tools, predictive algorithms, modeling approaches, development of monocot-focused experimental tools, and a high-throughput digital phenotyping platform."
Publications
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Filichkin S, Priest HD, Megraw M, Mockler TC. Alternative splicing in plants: directing traffic at the crossroads of adaptation and environmental stress. Current opinion in plant biology. 2015 Apr 30;24:125-35.
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Bryant DW, Priest HD, Mockler TC. Detection and quantification of alternative splicing variants using RNA-seq. RNA abundance analysis: methods and protocols. 2012:97-110.
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Rhee SY, Parker JE, Mockler TC. A glimpse into the future of genome-enabled plant biology from the shores of Cold Spring Harbor. Genome biology. 2016 Jan 11;17(1):3.
