Jeff Dangl

Prof. Jeff Dangl is an HHMI Investigator. He is also the John N. Couch Professor of Biology and a member of the UNC Curriculum in Genetics. He received dual Bachelor’s degrees in Biology and English (Modern Literature) form Stanford University in 1981. He received his Ph.D. in 1986 for work concerning structure-function relationships among of chimaeric monoclonal antibodies from the Genetics Department of the Stanford Medical School. In 1986, Dr. Dangl was awarded an NSF Plant Biology Fellowship to pursue post-doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute of Plant Breeding in Cologne, Germany, in the department of Prof. Klaus Hahlbrock. In 1989, he began his own group at the Max Delbrück Laboratory, also in Cologne. In 1995, the Dangl lab moved to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Dangl lab has contributed significantly to the use of Arabidopsis genetics as a tool to analyze plant-pathogen interactions. Dr. Dangl is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences (2007) and the German Academy of Sciences (“Die Leopoldina”, 2003). He is a past member of the National Research Council’s Board of Life Sciences and is a past member of the North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee (elected) and the NSF ‘Eukaryotic Genetics’ and NIH ‘Genetics, Variation and Evolution’ grant panels. He currently a member of the reviewing editorial boards of Science, Cell, and PLoS Biology and served as co-Editor in Chief of Current Opinions in Plant Biology. Research in the Dangl lab is funded by HHMI, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, NIH, NSF, and DOE.