David Gang, Plant Sciences

Dr. David R. Gang
Associate Professor
Marley Building, Room 441C
Phone: (520) 621-7154
Email: gang@ag.arizona.edu

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Background and Interests

David Gang received a Ph.D. in Plant Physiology from Washington State University in 1999. He also has a Bachelor's degree in Botany-Molecular Biology and a BA in German, both of which he received from Brigham Young University. Here at the University of Arizona, he teaches plant biochemistry (PLS 620 and part of PLS 660). His research seeks to elucidate the biosynthetic pathways that produce novel and important plant specialized metabolites in aromatic plants, to uncover the mechanisms responsible for the evolution of these pathways in the plant kingdom and to understand the function of a given natural product in the biology and physiology of a given plant species. The most productive approach in this area has been a multidisciplinary one-which utilizes the best tools from the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, plant physiology, whole organism biology and ecology-because understanding the role that a specific metabolite plays in the plant requires an understanding of the whole complexity surrounding its formation and utilization. The plants used as models in his lab include sweet basil, ginger and turmeric. Dr. Gang has received several awards and recognition for his work including the Arthur Neish Young Investigator Award, Phytochemical Society of North America, 2001 and the Margaret and Herman Sokol Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Sciences, University of Michigan, 1999. His work has been in many publications.

Publications

Ma X, Gang DR. Jun 2008. In vitro production of huperzine A, a promising drug candidate for Alzheimer's disease. Phytochemistry,2008 Jun 5;

Xie Z, Kapteyn J, Gang DR. May 2008. A systems biology investigation of the MEP/terpenoid and shikimate/phenylpropanoid pathways points to multiple levels of metabolic control in sweet basil glandular trichomes. Plant J, 54:349-61

Kapteyn J, Qualley AV, Xie Z, Fridman E, Dudareva N, Gang DR. Oct 2007. Evolution of Cinnamate/p-Coumarate Carboxyl Methyltransferases and Their Role in the Biosynthesis of Methylcinnamate. Plant Cell, 19:3212-29

Ma X, Tan C, Zhu D, Gang DR, Xiao P. Aug 2007. Huperzine A from Huperzia species--an ethnopharmacolgical review. J Ethnopharmacol, 113:15-34

Jiang H, Timmermann BN, Gang DR. Dec 2006. Characterization and identification of diarylheptanoids in ginger (Zingiber officinale Rosc.) using high-performance liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom, 21:509-18

Ma X Gang DR. Dec 2006. Metabolic Profiling of Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) Plants Derived from in Vitro Micropropagation and Conventional Greenhouse Cultivation. J Agric Food Chem, 54:9573-83

Dixon RA Gang DR Charlton AJ Fiehn O Kuiper HA Reynolds TL Tjeerdema RS Jeffery EH German JB Ridley WP Seiber JN. Nov 2006. Applications of Metabolomics in Agriculture. J Agric Food Chem, 54:8984-8994

Ma XQ, Gang DR. Oct 2006. Metabolic profiling of in vitro micropropagated and conventionally greenhouse grown ginger (Zingiber officinale). Phytochemistry, 67:2239-55

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