PLANT CELL ATLAS
  • Home
  • About
    • Annual Report
    • Newsletter
    • People
    • Motivation
    • Goals
    • Milestones
    • Affilations
    • News >
      • Breaking News
      • Past News
    • Code of Conduct
    • Bylaws
    • Contact
  • Resources
    • Publications >
      • 2022 Plant Physiology Focus Issue
    • Tools and Repositories
    • PCA Videos
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events >
      • Spatial Metabolomics Workshop - March 2025
    • Previous Events
  • Opportunities
    • Job Posts
    • Fellowships
  • Outreach
    • JR Biotek-PCA Best Talk Winner
    • PCA Art Exhibit >
      • About
      • Plant Biotechnology
      • Black Plant Scientists
      • Bowie State University
      • Howard University
      • Morgan State University
    • Futurum Brochure
  • Blog
 

Research Coordination Network
Steering Committee

Headshot of ​Seung Yon Rhee, PhD
​Seung Yon Rhee,
PhD

Michigan State University

Headshot of Julia Bailey-Serres, PhD
Julia Bailey-Serres,
PhD

University of California, Riverside
Headshot of Ken Birnbaum, ​PhD
Ken Birnbaum,
​PhD
New York University​

Headshot of Siobhan Brady, ​PhD
Siobhan Brady,
​PhD
University of California, Davis

Headshot of Marisa Otegui, PhD
Marc Libault,
PhD
University of Missouri
​
Headshot of Marisa Otegui, PhD
Marisa Otegui,
PhD
University of Wisconsin
​
Headshot of Nicholas Provart, ​PhD
Nicholas Provart,
​PhD

University of Toronto
​​
 

2023-2024
Research Coordination Network Committees

Click on the committee names below to learn more about the PCA RCN committee members.

Computation, Modeling, & AI Committee
Committee Lead
Headshot of Shao-shan Carol Huang, PhD
Shao-shan Carol Huang, PhD
New York University

Committee Members​
  • Sharon Greenblum (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
  • Dae Kwan Ko (Michigan State University, USA)
  • Mao Li (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA)
  • Song Li (Virginia Tech, USA)
Comparative Biology & Evolution Committee
Committee Lead
Headshot of Luke Nikolov, PhD
Luke Nikolov, PhD
Indiana University
Committee Members
  • Jeffrey Doyle (Cornell University, USA)
  • Andrew Farmer (National Center for Genome Resources, USA)
  • Gergo Palfalvi (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
  • Ivan Radin (University of Minnesota, USA)
  • Shao-shan Carol Huang (New York University, USA)
  • Jeremy Coate (Reed College, USA)
  • Sunil Kenchanmane (University of California Riverside, USA)
  • Qiuming Yao (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
  • Pallavi Singh (University of Essex, UK)
  • Kaisa Kajala (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Data Management & Infrastructure Committee
Committee Leads
Headshot of Benjamin Cole, ​PhD
Benjamin Cole,
​PhD

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Headshot of Noah Fahlgren, ​PhD
Felix Shaw,
​PhD
Earlham Institute
Committee Members
  • Alex Borowsky (Stanford University, USA)
  • Janeen Brayen (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA)
  • Luigi Di Costanzo (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
  • Noah Fahlgren (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA)
  • Andrew Farmer (National Center for Genome Resources, USA)
  • Fabio Gomez Cano (University of Michigan, USA)
  • Sharon Greenblum (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
  • Sunita Kumari (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA)
  • Dae Kwan Ko (Michigan State University, USA)
  • Michael Passalacqua (Cold Spring Harbor Lab, USA)
  • Elsa Quezada-Rodríguez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México)
  • Rachel Shahan (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
  • Qiuming Yao (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
Imaging Committee
Committee Leads
Headshot of Kirk Czymmek, ​PhD
Kirk Czymmek,
​PhD

Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Headshot of ​Michelle Facette, ​PhD
Heather McFarlane,
​PhD

University of Toronto

Committee Members
  • Christopher Anderton (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
  • Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso (University of Leeds, UK)
  • Tessa Burch-Smith (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA)
  • Georgia Drakakaki (University of California, Davis, USA)
  • ​Michelle Facette (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
  • Daniel Kierzkowski (University of Montreal, Canada)
  • Charlotte Kirchhelle (ENS Lyon, France)
  • Marc Libault (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA)
  • Ivan Radin (University of Minnesota, USA)
Metabolomics Committee
Committee Lead
Headshot of Christopher Anderton, PhD
Christopher Anderton, PhD
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Committee Members
  • Amir Ahkami (Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA)
  • Nanna Bjarnholt (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
  • Jazz Dickinson (University of California, San Diego, USA)
  • Alisdair Fernie (Max Plank Institute of Molecular Plant Pathology, Germany)
  • Sibongile Mafu (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
  • Gaurav Moghe (Cornell University, USA)
  • Toshihiro Obata (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA)
  • Aleksandra Skirycz (Michigan State University, USA)
Outreach Committee
Committee Lead
Headshot of Luigi Di Costanzo, PhD
Luigi Di Costanzo, PhD
University of Naples Federico II
Committee Members
  • ​Kevin Cox, Jr (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA)
  • Alejandro Fonseca Cárdenas (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden)
  • Sam Leiboff (Oregon State University, USA)
  • Tie Liu (University of Florida, USA)
  • Heather McFarlane (University of Toronto, Canada)
Phenomics Committee
Committee Lead
Headshot of Margaret Frank, ​PhD
Margaret Frank,
​PhD

Cornell University


Committee Members​
  • Noah Fahlgren (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA)
  • Mao Li (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA)
  • R. Glen Uhrig (University of Alberta, Canada)
Plant Cell Identity Committee
Committee Leads
Headshot of Ken Birnbaum, ​PhD
Natanella Illouz-Eliaz, ​PhD
Salk Institute

Headshot of Ken Birnbaum, ​PhD
Trevor Nolan,
​PhD
Caltech

Committee Members
  • Sahand Amini (University of Missouri, USA)
  • Julia Bailey-Serres (University of California, Riverside, USA)
  • Ken Birnbaum (New York University, USA)
  • Benjamin Cole (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
  • Stefania Giacomello (SciLifeLab, Sweden)
  • Kaisa Kajala (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
  • Luke Nikolov (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)
  • Tatsuya Nobori (The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK)
  • Gergo Palfalvi (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
  • Noé Perron (University of Florida, USA)
  • Pallavi Singh (University of Essex, United Kingdom)
  • Olivia Wilkins (University of Manitoba, Canada)
  • Mingyuan Zhu (Duke University, USA)
Proteomics Committee
Committee Lead
Headshot of R. Glen Uhrig, PhD
R. Glen Uhrig,
​PhD

University of Alberta​

Committee Members
  • Amir Ahkami (Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA)
  • Maite Colinas (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany)
  • Devang Mehta (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
  • Ben Neely (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
  • Justin Walley (Iowa State University, USA)
  • Zhiyong Wang (Carnegie Institution for Science, USA)
  • Shouling Xu (Carnegie Institution for Science, USA)
Single-cell Sequencing Committee
Committee Leads
Headshot of Kevin Cox Jr, ​PhD
Kevin Cox Jr,
​PhD
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Headshot of Rachel Shahan, ​PhD
Rachel Shahan,
​PhD
University of California, Los Angeles, USA ​
Committee Members
  • Benjamin Cole (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
  • Stefania Giacomello (SciLifeLab, Sweden)
  • Fabio Gomez Cano (Michigan State University, USA)
  • Marc Libault (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA)
  • Trevor Nolan (Duke University, USA)
  • Ronan O'Malley (University of Chicago, USA)
  • Gergo Palfalvi (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
  • Bob Schmitz (University of Georgia, USA)
  • Batthula Vijaya Lakshmi Vadde (Cornell University, USA)
  • Jianping Wang (University of Florida, USA)
  • Olivia Wilkins (University of Manitoba, Canada)
  • Shouling Xu (Carnegie Institution for Science, USA)
Spatial Omics Committee
Committee Leads
Headshot of David Jackson, ​PhD
David Jackson,
​PhD

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Headshot of Hilde Nelissen, ​PhD
Hilde Nelissen,
​PhD

VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology
Committee Members
  • Christopher Anderton (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
  • Tie Liu (University of Florida, USA)
  • Tatsuya Nobori (Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA)
  • Trevor Nolan (Duke University, USA)
  • Marta Peirats-Llobet (La Trobe University, Australia)
  • Jazz Dickinson (University of California, San Diego, USA)
  • Rüdiger Simon (Heinrich Heine University, Germany)
Synthetic Biology Committee
Committee Leads
Headshot of Jenn Brophy, ​PhD
Jenn Brophy,
​PhD
Stanford University
Headshot of Nicola Patron, ​PhD
Nicola Patron,
​PhD
University of Cambridge, UK ​
Committee Members
  • Alex Borowsky (Stanford University, USA)
  • Godze Demirer (Caltech, USA)
  • Quentin Dudley (University of Wisconsin Madison, USA)
  • Chris Dundas (University of Georgia, USA)
  • Jennifer Mortimer (University of Adelaide, Australia)
  • Noé Perron (University of Florida, USA)
  • Clay Wright (Virginia Polytechnic University, USA)
Training & Networking Committee
Committee Lead
Headshot of Thelma Madzima, ​PhD
Purva Karia
Carnegie Institution for Science
Committee Members​
  • Sam Leiboff (Oregon State University, USA)
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
“The Plant Cell Atlas operates predominantly out of Michigan State University. We acknowledge that Michigan State University occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg – the Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples. We affirm Indigenous sovereignty and hold Michigan State University accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples.”

For questions about the PCA Initiative please contact us at [email protected].

    stay up to date on Plant Cell Atlas news and Events.

Subscribe to Newsletter
Michigan State University
612 Wilson Rd
East Lansing, MI 48824

National Science Foundation logo. A blue globe with
Grant #'s: 1916797 & 2052590
Plant Resilience Institute at Michigan State University logo
Carnegie Science logo on the left. The logo depicts a circle with a sytlized dark blue starry sky at the top, a brown ammonite fossile on the bottem left, and a stylized green leaf on the right. Text to the right of the logo states
BASF logo. Logo is an orange rectangle with the text
  • Home
  • About
    • Annual Report
    • Newsletter
    • People
    • Motivation
    • Goals
    • Milestones
    • Affilations
    • News >
      • Breaking News
      • Past News
    • Code of Conduct
    • Bylaws
    • Contact
  • Resources
    • Publications >
      • 2022 Plant Physiology Focus Issue
    • Tools and Repositories
    • PCA Videos
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events >
      • Spatial Metabolomics Workshop - March 2025
    • Previous Events
  • Opportunities
    • Job Posts
    • Fellowships
  • Outreach
    • JR Biotek-PCA Best Talk Winner
    • PCA Art Exhibit >
      • About
      • Plant Biotechnology
      • Black Plant Scientists
      • Bowie State University
      • Howard University
      • Morgan State University
    • Futurum Brochure
  • Blog