16 Facts About Joanne Chory

Joanne Chory is a professor and director of the Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Joanne Chory's leads the Salk Institute's Harnessing Plants Initiative, an innovative carbon dioxide removal approach to fight climate change by optimizing a plant's natural ability to capture and store carbon dioxide and adapt to different climate conditions.

Joanne Chory was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society in 2011 and is the recipient of the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and the 2019 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research.

Joanne Chory's holds the Howard H and Maryam R Newman Chair in Plant Biology.

Joanne Chory's is an adjunct professor in the Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, UC San Diego.

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Joanne Chory's began her upper level education at Oberlin College in Ohio where she graduated with a degree in biology with honors.

Joanne Chory's then continued her post graduate education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Joanne Chory's was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Medical School in the lab of Frederick M Ausubel.

Joanne Chory eventually married her husband, Stephen Worland, with whom she has two adopted children.

Joanne Chory's has struggled with the disease for well over a decade, but with the help of medications and a brain implant to help regulate her movement, she has continued her genetic research.

Joanne Chory focuses her research on finding a way to optimize plant growth to sustain a growing human population.

Joanne Chory's uses Arabidopsis thaliana as a model organism, but her purpose is to optimize all plant growth and not just that of A thaliana itself.

Joanne Chory's has made strides in understanding light sensitivity and hormones in these plants.

Joanne Chory's uses this knowledge to optimize growth in other plants in hopes that we can better sustain a fast and ever-growing population.

Joanne Chory's has participated in research dissecting this complex process by isolating mutations that alter light-regulated seedling development in Arabidopsis.

Dr Joanne Chory's lab has been involved in the manipulation of the biosynthetic pathway for these steroids that altered the growth and development of plants and identification of the putative steroid receptor, a transmembrane receptor kinase.