Professor Maureen R. Hanson
Contact Information:
telephone: 607-254-4833
email: 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
Research Projects:
-Molecular mechanism of cytoplasmic male sterility and fertility restoration in petunia and rice
-QTLs affecting RNA editing in Arabidopsis mitochondria
John C. Robbins, Research Associate
Ph.D., Microbial Genetics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN
Research Project: Genomics of chloroplast RNA-binding proteins in maize and rice
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
Charles Bullerwell, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Research Project: Protein factors required for RNA editing in chloroplasts
Wade Heller, Graduate Student
B.S. in Biotechnology, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Cornell Ph.D. Program: Field of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology
Research Project: Molecular mechanism of RNA editing in chloroplasts
Benjamin Gray, Graduate Student
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
NSF Predoctoral Fellow, Cornell Ph.D. Program in Biological and Environmental Engineering (Major advisor: Prof. Beth Ahner)
Research Project: Optimization of expression of foreign proteins in chloroplasts
Arnaud Germain, Rotating Graduate Student, 2008
M.S., Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Cornell Ph.D. Program: Field of Plant Biology
Research project: Dynamic organization of the plant cell
Ali Awan, Rotating Graduate Student, 2008
M.S., Computational Biology, Stanford University
Cornell Ph.D. Program: Field of Genetics and Development
Research project: Optimization of expression of foreign proteins in chloroplasts
Lin Lin, Technician
B.S. Organic Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing
Research Project: Genomics of chloroplast RNA-binding protein in maize and rice
Ingrid Phillips, Technician
M.S., SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY
Research Project: Genomics of chloroplast RNA-binding protein in maize and rice
Karen Wiswall, Technician
B.A., Genetics, Cornell University
Research Project: Gene expression in mitochondria
Walter Knight, Undergraduate Research Assistant
Cornell University
Research Project: Genes affecting mitochondrial RNA editing in Arabidopsis
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: Postdoctoral Research Associate, U. of Western Australia, Perth (Ian Small laboratory)
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, Santa Barbara
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