Stephen C. Winans, Ph. D.
Professor

Department of Microbiology
Cornell University
360A Wing Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-5701

Phone: (607) 255-2413
Fax: (607) 255-3904
E-Mail: scw2@cornell.edu

Our work is directed to understanding how Agrobacterium tumefaciens perceives its plant hosts. In the past 10 years, it has become well established that disease-causing genes of most pathogens are expressed in response to diffusible signals released from the host. This principle was first discovered using A. tumefaciens. This organism has remained arguably the best model to study how pathogens recognize these hosts-released signals.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Stephen Winans is an Associate Professor in the Section of Microbiology is a member of the Graduate Field of Microbiology. He received his A.B. in Botany from the University of California at Berkeley in 1977 with highest honors. He got his Ph.D. degree with Dr. Graham Walker at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Eugene Nester at the University of Washington from 1984-1988. He joined the Cornell faculty in 1988. He is a member of the American Society for Microbiology.

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