Philip N. Benfey, Paul Kramer Professor  

Philip N. Benfey

Education:
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1986
DEUG (Diplome d'Etudes Universitaire Generale, Univerisite de Paris VI, 1981
B.S., University of Paris (France), 1981

Office Location: 130 Science Drive, Room 137, Duke Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone: (919) 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. Shibata, M; Breuer, C; Kawamura, A; Clark, NM; Rymen, B; Braidwood, L; Morohashi, K; Busch, W; Benfey, PN; Sozzani, R; Sugimoto, K, GTL1 and DF1 regulate root hair growth through transcriptional repression of ROOT HAIR DEFECTIVE 6-LIKE 4 in Arabidopsis., Development (Cambridge), vol. 145 no. 3 (February, 2018) [doi]  [abs].
  2. Wendrich, JR; Möller, BK; Li, S; Saiga, S; Sozzani, R; Benfey, PN; De Rybel, B; Weijers, D, Framework for gradual progression of cell ontogeny in the Arabidopsis root meristem., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA, vol. 114 no. 42 (October, 2017), pp. E8922-E8929 [doi]  [abs].
  3. Di Mambro, R; De Ruvo, M; Pacifici, E; Salvi, E; Sozzani, R; Benfey, PN; Busch, W; Novak, O; Ljung, K; Di Paola, L; Marée, AFM; Costantino, P; Grieneisen, VA; Sabatini, S, Auxin minimum triggers the developmental switch from cell division to cell differentiation in the Arabidopsis root., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA, vol. 114 no. 36 (September, 2017), pp. E7641-E7649 [doi]  [abs].
  4. Drapek, C; Sparks, EE; Benfey, PN, Uncovering Gene Regulatory Networks Controlling Plant Cell Differentiation., Trends in Genetics, vol. 33 no. 8 (August, 2017), pp. 529-539 [doi]  [abs].
  5. Hsu, PY; Benfey, PN, Small but Mighty: Functional Peptides Encoded by Small ORFs in Plants., Proteomics (July, 2017) [doi]  [abs].