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Paul Overvoorde
Associate
Professor
Olin-Rice 211
(651) 696-6460 office
overvoorde@macalester.edu
Professor Overvoorde is a plant molecular biologist with teaching and
research interests in cell and molecular biology, biochemistry,
genetics, and genome biology. His research program focuses on understanding how plant cells
perceive and respond to the plant hormone auxin. He recently
received two grants: a major instrumentation award from the NSF for
molecular biology equipment that will be used widely for research in
the department and a grant from the USDA for support of his research. Overvoorde teaches Genetics, one of
the courses in the Department’s core sequence, as well as courses in plant physiology and genome biology.
Education BA Calvin College, 1990
PhD Washington State University, 1995
post-doc University of California Berkeley, USDA Plant Gene Expression
Center
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