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Reviewing Editor
Kent Chapman
Areas of expertise Biochemistry, cell biology, lipid metabolism lipid signaling, metabolic engineering. Kent D. Chapman is Regents Professor, Director of the Center for Plant Lipid Research, and Coordinator of the Plant Signaling Cluster at the University of North Texas, Denton, TX. His doctoral research at Arizona State University, Tempe, examined the cellular origin of membrane lipids in cottonseed glyoxysomes. Research in the Chapman lab focuses on aspects of plant lipids, including lipid signaling during seedling establishment, storage lipid accumulation in plant tissues, and the engineering of seed reserves in cotton and other oilseed crops. Recent advances by the Chapman lab in the imaging of lipids in plant tissues by mass spectrometry have revealed previously unknown heterogeneity in the spatial distribution of lipid metabolites and pathways in plant tissues, a finding that is likely to impact current thinking about plant metabolism. Editorial experience Plant Cell, Guest Editor (2016-); Executive Editor, Progress in Lipid Research (2015-present); Guest Editor (with Ivo Feussner), Special issue in Plant Lipid Biology, BBA-Molecular Cell Biology of Lipids (2015-present); Guest Editor (with Xuemin Wang), Special Issue in Plant Lipid Signaling, Frontiers in Plant Physiology (2011-2013); Associate Editor, Journal of Cotton Science, published on-line by the National Cotton Council (2006-2013). Honors and awards include Rotating program officer at the National Science Foundation (2014-15); Appointed Regents Professor, University of North Texas (2010); Research Award for Outstanding Achievement in Intellectual Property, University of North Texas, Denton (2010); Research Leadership Award for National and International Scientific Achievement, University of North Texas, Denton (2009). |