Besides teaching the above courses, I serve as Coordinator for the Public Horticulture
Program at Purdue, as chair of the Department of Horticulture and Landscape
Architecture's Teaching Committee, and as a member of the College of Agriculture's
Curriculum and Student Relations Committee.
Research Activity
Research in my laboratory seeks to elucidate the role of lipids, particularly long and very long chain fatty acids associated with cuticular lipids, as both physical and signaling determinants of plant response to environmental stress. Arabidopsis has served as a valuable model. However, food plants are becoming increasingly important as we seek to apply fundamental discoveries in Arabidopsis to the genetic improvement of important crops.