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Ravi Palanivelu
Areas of expertise Male and female gametophyte development and function, molecular genetic analysis of plant reproduction. Ravi Palanivelu is an Associate Professor in the School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. He earned his Ph.D. in Genetics from University of Georgia and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago before joining the faculty at the University of Arizona. Dr. Palanivelu’s work focuses on understanding how plant cells communicate with each other using pollen tube interactions with pistils as a model system. His lab is identifying the molecular mechanisms that underlie specific pollen tube functions in Brassicaceae such as germination, growth, guidance and growth arrest in the synergid cell of the female gametophyte. Recent research in his lab is also focused on identifying thermotolerant varieties in tomato by improving tomato pollen tube growth in pistils under heat stress. Editorial experience Molecular Plant (Guest Editor, 2013), Frontiers in Plant Sciences (Topic Editor, 2014), PloS Genetics (Guest Associate Editor, 2012, 2017), Frontiers in Plant Sciences (Review Editor, Plant Evolution and Development, 2016-), PNAS (Ad hoc Editor, 2020), and Plant Cell (Guest Editor 2020-). Honors and awards include “60 for 60” STEM community leader award from The Southern Arizona Research, Science, and Engineering Foundation, Tucson, Arizona (2013); David E. Cox Faculty Teaching Award. College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (2019). |