Adrienne H.K. Roeder
Adrienne Roeder is an Associate Professor in the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology and the School of Integrative Plant Sciences, Section of Plant Biology at Cornell University. She earned her B.S. in Biological Sciences with a minor in Mathematical and Computational Sciences from Stanford University in 1999. She earned her PhD from UCSD working with Martin Yanofsky in 2005. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Caltech with Elliot Meyerowitz before starting her own lab studying cell size and organ size in Arabidopsis flowers using a computational morphodynamics approach. She has a longstanding interest in plant cell and developmental biology. Her lab studies how cell size and organ size are regulated in plants. Specifically, her group studies how plants generate cells with diverse sizes, ranging from giant to small, through regulating endoreduplication. On the flip side, her group also studies how plants form organs, such as sepals, with reproducible size despite variability of cells in their size, growth, and division. Her lab has an interest how organ size and shape emerge from the coordination of cell growth. Strikingly, her lab is finding that plants utilize stochasticity or randomness to produce robustness and regularity.
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