DR. A. BRUCE CAHOON
Associate Professor

CONTACT:
E-mail: Aubrey.Cahoon@mtsu.edu
Phone: (615) 494-8792
Fax: (615) 898-5093
Office Location:
Jones Hall 332
Box 60
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Web site: www.mtsu.edu/~acahoon

EDUCATION:
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University. 2000-2003

Ph.D. (Biology), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 2001
Dissertation: Regulation of Light-Independent Chlorophyll Synthesis in the Unicellular Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

M.S. (Biology), Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 1994

B.S. (Biology), Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 1991

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
I have general interests in plant genetics and plant biotechnology with a focus on chloroplast biology and biochemistry. Most recently I have been using maize as a model system to combine molecular and classical genetic techniques to study the mechanisms of chloroplast gene expression.

PUBLICATION RECORD:
See my web site for a complete list.