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The Gang Lab welcomes you to our home on the web. We are Moving! Starting September 1, 2009, we will be located in the Institute of Biological Chemistry at Washington State University. We also have several new projects starting up. As a result, we have several post-doctoral research associate positions available. Please see the Available Positions link to learn more about these positions and see how to apply if you are interested. Why "Cellular Metabolism and Engineering"? The basic building block of life is the cell. Although metabolism is integrated between tissues and organs in an organism, metabolic pathways themselves exist and function within individual cells. Thus, in order to understand how metabolism truly functions in an organism, we must understand how it functions in individual cells. In order to engineer metabolism, a goal which has received much attention lately due to problems with fuel and food shortages, we must understand not only how metabolism is structured but also how it is regulated and controlled. Again, that occurs at the cellular level. Thus, a major goal of the Gang lab is to understand metabolism in individual plant cell types. We are also interested in how metabolism is integrated within the whole physiology of the plant body and how it is regulated and controlled within organs such as rhizomes. Click on a link to the left to find out who we are, what we do and how we do it. To get to the University of Arizona, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the Department of Plant Sciences, or the Bio5 Institute click on the logo below.
To hear why you should eat spices like ginger and turmeric, click here. To connect to our collaborative effort to identify genes that play important roles in differentiation, development and growth of plant rhizomes, click here. To connect to our collaborative effort to investigate metabolism in tomato trichomes, click the link to the left or click here.
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