Professor Maureen R. Hanson
Contact Information:
telephone: 607-254-4833
e-mail: mrh5(at)cornell.edu
Link to Dr. Hanson's department faculty webpage
Hanson Lab members
Stéphane Bentolila, Senior Research Associate
Ph.D., l'Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I, Lyon, France
Previous position: Postdoctoral associate, Dept. of Plant Breeding, Cornell
Research Projects:
-Molecular mechanism of cytoplasmic male sterility and fertility restoration in petunia and rice
-QTLs affecting RNA editing in Arabidopsis mitochondria
Amir Sattarzadeh, Research Associate
Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
Research Projects:
-Optimization of expression of foreign proteins in chloroplasts
-Dynamic organization of the plant cell
Lin Lin, Technician IV
B.S. Organic Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing
Prior appointments: Technician IV, Dept. of Biomedical Science, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell
Clinic Specialist III, Molecular Pathology, University of Miami School of Medicine
Research Projects: RNA editing in organelles and Analysis of XMRV in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients and healthy controls
Li L. Lee, Research Associate
Ph.D., Molecular Biology, Cardiff University, Wales, UK
Prior appointment: Postdoctoral associate, School of Chemical and Bimolecular Engineering
Research project: Analysis of XMRV in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients and healthy controls
Huijun Yang, Research Associate
Ph.D. Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Previous position: Research Associate, Dept. of Plant Biology, Cornell University
Research project: Expression of foreign proteins in chloroplasts
Jessica Wagoner, Graduate student
Tao Sun, Graduate student
Undergraduate Lab Assistants, 2007-2008
Paula Latortue
Debbie Lay
Collaborators (former Visiting Scientists)
Dr. Hiroyuki Ishida
Department of Applied Plant Science, Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Dr. Andreas Holzinger
Institute of Botany, Department of Physiology and Cell Physiology of Alpine Plants,University of Innsbruck, Austria
Lab Alumni - Recent Postdoctoral and Research Associates
Julien Fey
Ph.D., Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes,Strasbourg, France
Current position : Research Scientist, Agave, Inc., Ithaca, NY
Daniel Reisen
Current position: Technical Support, Bitplane Scientific Solutions, Zurich, Switzerland
Jin Su
Ph.D., Plant Molecular Biology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing
Current position: Research Associate, Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca, NY
Anne-Laure Chateigner-Boutin
Current position: Research Scientist, INRA, Nantes, France
Charles Bullerwell, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Current position: Faculty, University Sainte-Anne, Canada
Lab Alumni - Recent Ph.D. students
Jason D. Gillman
Ph.D. (2007) Field of Plant Biology “Molecular and proteomic studies of the Petunia Restorer of Fertility”
Current position: Postdoctoral associate, USDA-ARS, U. Missouri-Columbia
Michael L. Hayes
Ph.D. (2007) Field of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology “Sequence elements essential for RNA editing in chloroplasts”
Current position: Postdoctoral associate, U. California, Irvine
Wade P. Heller
Current position: Postdoctoral associate, USDA-ARS, Hilo, Hawaii
Supplementary Data
Two former members of the Hanson laboratory, Rainer Kohler and Ernest Kwok, have provided additional images and movies of plant cells labelled with fluorescent proteins. The data is associated with the following four publications:
1. Köhler, RH. 1998. GFP for in vivo imaging of subcellular structures in plant cells. Trends in Plant Science 3(8): 317-320.
2. Hanson, M.R. and R.H. Köhler. 2001. GFP imaging: methodology and application to investigate cellular compartmentation in plants. J Exp Bot., 52(356): 529-39.
Link to supplementary data for these two publications
3. Köhler, RH, Hanson, MR. 2000. Plastid tubules of higher plants are tissue-specific and developmentally regulated. Journal of Cell Science 113: 81-89.
Link to supplementary data for this publication
4. Kwok, EY, Hanson, MR. 2004. Stromules and the dynamic nature of plastid morphology. Journal of Microscopy 214: 124-137.
Link to supplementary data for this publication