Principle Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Member of National Academy of Sciences of USA George W. Beadle Professor of Biology Division of Biology California Institute of Technology, USA Expertise: Flower Development and Arabidopsis as a Model for Developmental Study Research interests: 1) To understand how stem cell populations are maintained 2) How these cell populations form organized and differentiated structures. Publications:  SUPERMAN regulates floral whorl boundaries through control of auxin biosynthesis. Xu Y, Prunet N, Gan ES, Wang Y, Stewart D, Wellmer F, Huang J, Yamaguchi N, Tatsumi Y, Kojima M, Kiba T, Sakakibara H, Jack TP, Meyerowitz EM, Ito T. EMBO J. 2018 May 15. pii: e97499. doi: 10.15252/embj.201797499.  Transcriptome dynamics at Arabidopsis graft junctions reveal an intertissue recognition mechanism that activates vascular regeneration. Melnyk CW, Gabel A, Hardcastle TJ, Robinson S, Miyashima S, Grosse I, Meyerowitz EM. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Mar 6;115(10):E2447-E2456. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1718263115. Epub 2018 Feb 13.  Cell Cycle Control by Nuclear Sequestration of CDC20 and CDH1 mRNA in Plant Stem Cells. Yang W, Wightman R, Meyerowitz EM. Mol Cell. 2017 Dec 21;68(6):1108-1119.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2017.11.008. Epub 2017 Dec 7.  Field Guide to Plant Model Systems. Chang C, Bowman JL, Meyerowitz EM. Cell. 2016 Oct 6;167(2):325-339. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.08.031.  Genetics and plant development. Prunet N, Meyerowitz EM. C R Biol. 2016 Jul-Aug;339(7-8):240-6. doi: 10.1016/j.crvi.2016.05.003. Epub 2016 May 26