Philip N Benfey, Paul Kramer Professor  

Philip N Benfey

Education:
PhD, Harvard, 1986
DEUG (Diplome d'Etudes Universitaire Generale, Univerisite de Paris VI, 1981

Office Location: FFSC: 4101
Office Phone: 613-8182, 660-7338
Email Address: philip.benfey@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.biology.duke.edu/benfeylab

Specialties:
Developmental Biology
Cell and Molecular Biology
Genetics
Genomics

Research Categories: Plant Developmental Genetics and Genomics

Research Description:

Areas of Interest:
Root development
Transcriptional networks
Cell expansion
Cell-cell signaling

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. KL Gallagher, PN Benfey, Both the conserved GRAS domain and nuclear localization are required for SHORT-ROOT movement., The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology (December, 2008)  [abs].
  2. TA Long, SM Brady, PN Benfey, Systems approaches to identifying gene regulatory networks in plants., Annual review of cell and developmental biology, United States, vol. 24 (November, 2008), pp. 81-103  [abs].
  3. J Colinas, SC Schmidler, G Bohrer, B Iordanov, PN Benfey, Intergenic and genic sequence lengths have opposite relationships with respect to gene expression., PLoS ONE, United States, vol. 3 no. 11 (November, 2008), pp. e3670  [abs].
  4. AS Iyer-Pascuzzi, PN Benfey, Transcriptional networks in root cell fate specification., Biochimica et biophysica acta (October, 2008)  [abs].
  5. I De Smet, V Vassileva, B De Rybel, MP Levesque, W Grunewald, D Van Damme, G Van Noorden, M Naudts, G Van Isterdael, R De Clercq, JY Wang, N Meuli, S Vanneste, J Friml, P Hilson, G Jürgens, GC Ingram, D Inzé, PN Benfey, T Beeckman, Receptor-like kinase ACR4 restricts formative cell divisions in the Arabidopsis root., Science (New York, N.Y.), United States, vol. 322 no. 5901 (October, 2008), pp. 594-7  [abs].

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