Michael Freeling is currently a professor in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at the University of California.
10 Facts About Michael Freeling
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Michael Freeling is known for early work on maize anaerobic metabolism, developmental genetics of the maize ligule, proposing the grasses as a single genetic system model with Jeffrey Bennetzen, and the discovery of biased gene retention following whole genome duplications in plants.
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In 1994 Freeling was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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Michael Freeling was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States in 1945.
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Michael Freeling then join Drew Schwartz's research group at the Indiana University Bloomington where he worked with Marcus Rhoades.
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Michael Freeling was promoted to Associate Professor in 1979, and to full professor in 1984.
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Michael Freeling found that the cytoplasmic acidosis was a good predictor of how poorly plants can tolerate flooding stress.
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Michael Freeling developed tools for identifying conserved non-coding sequences in plant genomes and has played a role in sequencing the genomes of papaya, sorghum, banana, Brassica rapa, pineapple and strawberry.
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Michael Freeling identified biased gene loss between duplicated regions of the arabidopsis genome.
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Between 1973 and 2014 Michael Freeling was the mentor for 27 PhD students and 49 postdocs, including four who went on to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences.