Function and Regulation of Plant Metabolism
Joseph Lynch Lab
Research Interests
Current research focuses on the intercompartmental nature of plant metabolism, with a particular interest in how apparent functional redundancy of pathways sustains and regulates specialized metabolism. The overarching goals of this research are to better understand agriculturally and ecologically relevant stress responses, and to enable enhanced production of beneficial phytochemicals.
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Joseph Lynch
Principal Investigator, Bond LSC
Assistant Professor of Plant Science and Technology
phone(573) 882-1378
email jlynch@missouri.edu
Joseph Lynch grew up in rural Washington State and received his BS in Biology from Gonzaga University. He then earned his PhD from Washington State University in the Molecular Plant Sciences program, with his graduate research in the lab of Dr. Sanja Roje focusing on the metabolism of flavin cofactors. After completion of his degree, he took a postdoctoral position in Dr. Natalia Dudareva’s lab at Purdue University studying the production and release of phenylpropanoid/benzenoid volatiles in plants. During his postdoc, he helped elucidate a cytosolic pathway for synthesis of the amino acid phenylalanine in plants that operates in parallel to the canonical plastidial biosynthetic pathway, and contributed to the characterization of membrane-bound transporters that shuttle metabolites throughout the cell.
LAB MEMBERS
Leland Cseke
Research Lab Manager
Research Topics
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Aromatic amino acid metabolism
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Metabolic pathway engineering
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Metabolic pathways and mechanisms
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Aromatic amino acid metabolism
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Metabolic pathway engineering
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Metabolic pathways and mechanisms
