Yezhang Ding
Biochemist Research Scientist
Building: Integrative Genomics Building (IGB), Room 125
yezhangding@lbl.gov
http://www.northenlab.org/
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Research Interests
I am interested in using integrative system biology and high throughput approaches to understand plant specialized metabolism in plant environmental stress interactions. One of his projects is focused on plant microbiome interactions. Plants utilize chemicals to communicate with microorganisms, favoring beneficial microbes and killing harmful ones. I use integrative approaches, including metabolomics, genetics, transcriptomics, proteomics and others to identify novel secondary metabolites involved in plant microbe interactions and explore how plants use these metabolites to benefit their own.
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EcoFAB: A Tool for Combating Climate Change and Training the Next Generation
Fabricated ecosystems—EcoFABs—are plastic, takeout box–sized growth chambers developed at Berkeley Lab to be a standardized and reproducible platform for conducting experiments on model plants and the microbes that live around their roots. A greater understanding of how plants and microbes work together to store vast amounts of atmospheric carbon in the soil will help in the design of better bioenergy crops for the fight against climate change.
