My lab uses biochemical and molecular approaches to isolate genes regulated by AGL15, a member of the MADS-domain family of proteins that preferentially accumulates in developing embryos, and to understand how AGL15 controls gene expression. This is an initial step in my program's long-term research interests in regulatory networks active during seed development and during somatic embryogenesis.

2017-Present, Professor, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky

2004-2017, Associate Professor, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky

1998-2004, Assistant Professor, Department of Agronomy, University of Kentucky

1997-1998, Research Associate, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1993-1997, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1987-1993, Graduate Research Assistant, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison