Isabelle Kagan
N222 Ag Science North
1100 Nicholasville Road
Lexington, KY 40546-0091
Last Revised: Mar 19th, 2024
Professional Biography
Areas of Interest: Plant natural products and their roles in defense against pathogens, plant-endophyte mutualism, and animal health
2004-present, Research plant physiologist at the USDA-ARS Forage-Animal Production Research Unit (FAPRU) in Lexington, KY
2002-2004, Postdoctoral molecular biologist at the USDA-ARS Natural Products Utilization Research Unit (NPURU) in Oxford, MS
2000-2002, Postdoctoral plant physiologist at the USDA-ARS-NPURU
1999-2000, Postdoctoral enzymologist (Chateaubriand Fellow in 1999) in the Dept. of Isoprenoids, CNRS Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Strasbourg, France
Education
Ph.D., Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, 1999
B.A., Chemistry and Biology, Cornell University, 1991
