Lucia C. Strader, Professor  

Normal plant morphogenesis and environmental responses require integrating multiple signals to modulate auxin responsiveness, biosynthesis, transport, and storage forms.  Auxin is a critical plant hormone, controlling both cell division and cell expansion and thereby orchestrating many developmental events and environmental responses.  Our research focuses on a molecular understanding of auxin signaling, auxin homeostasis, and auxin crosstalk with other hormones.  Understanding these molecular details will yield insight into strategies used by plants to alter growth in response to various environmental factors.

Education:
Ph.D., Washington State University, 2004

Office Location: 124 Science Drive, 3332 French Family Science Center, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address: lucia.strader@duke.edu

Additional Web Page: http://sites.duke.edu/strader

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. Morffy, N; Van den Broeck, L; Miller, C; Emenecker, RJ; Bryant, JA; Lee, TM; Sageman-Furnas, K; Wilkinson, EG; Pathak, S; Kotha, SR; Lam, A; Mahatma, S; Pande, V; Waoo, A; Wright, RC; Holehouse, AS; Staller, MV; Sozzani, R; Strader, LC, Identification of plant transcriptional activation domains., Nature, vol. 632 no. 8023 (August, 2024), pp. 166-173 [doi]  [abs].
  2. Damodaran, S; Strader, LC, Factors governing cellular reprogramming competence in Arabidopsis adventitious root formation., Developmental cell (July, 2024), pp. S1534-5807(24)00397-6, Elsevier BV [doi]  [abs].
  3. Pérez-Henríquez, P; Nagawa, S; Liu, Z; Pan, X; Michniewicz, M; Tang, W; Rasmussen, C; Van Norman, J; Strader, L; Yang, Z, PIN2-mediated self-organizing transient auxin flow contributes to auxin maxima at the tip of Arabidopsis cotyledons., bioRxiv (June, 2024) [doi]  [abs].
  4. Pérez-Henríquez, P; Li, H; Zhou, X; Pan, X; Lin, W; Tang, W; Nagawa, S; Lin, D; Xu, T; Michniewicz, M; Prigge, MJ; Strader, LC; Estelle, M; Hayashi, K-I; Friml, J; Qi, L; Liu, Z; Van Norman, J; Yang, Z, Hierarchical global and local auxin signals coordinate cellular interdigitation in Arabidopsis., bioRxiv (June, 2024) [doi]  [abs].
  5. Pathak, S; Strader, LC, GRP7 phase separation as an interpreter of temperature cues., Molecular plant, vol. 17 no. 6 (June, 2024), pp. 842-844, Elsevier BV [doi] .