About Mockler Lab
The Mockler lab located at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri is at the interface of computational bioinformatics and molecular genomics. Our lab consists of postdocs, graduate students, and technicians from both disciplines that work together in an effort to further elucidate the fundamental inner workings of plant genomes.
On the informatics side of things, our bioinformaticians are able to leverage the computational resources provided by a state of the art cluster. This greatly empowers us to take full advantage of the wealth of biological data produced by High-throughput sequencing and make identifications that can be verified in vitro. As for our molecular biologists, automated robotic systems have been installed enabling them to exhaustively search across entire systems for interactions. Ultimately, whether they work in silico or in vivo the researchers in our lab act in concert to systematically identify the mechanisms that govern entire biological systems.
Who we are
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Principal Investigator
Dr. Sarit Weissmann
Research ScientistPhilip Ozersky
Bioinformatics and Database DeveloperDarren O'Brien
Lab Technician -
Robert Lowery
Lab TechnicianZhonghui Wang
Lab TechnicianNatalie Elam
Lab Technician
Our Collaborators
- Amy Iezzoni - Michigan State
- A.S.N. Reddy - Colorado State
- Cameron Peace - Washington State University
- C. Robertson McClung - Dartmouth
- David Garvin - USDA-ARS
- Dorothea Bartels - University of Bonn
- Elizabeth Kellogg - University of Missouri - St. Louis
- Ivan Baxter - Danforth Center
- Jeff Chang - Oregon State University
- Joanne Chory - Salk Institute
- John Vogel - USDA-ARS
- Kris Irizarry - Western University of Health Sciences
- Lynda Ciufetti - Oregon State
- Nahla Bassil - USDA-ARS
- Sam Hazen - UMass Amherst
- Shawn Mehlenbacher - Oregon State University
- Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein - Technion
- Steve Kay - Scripps Research Institute
- Steve Strauss - Oregon State University
- Sue Rhee - Carnegie Institution for Science
- Tim Nelson - Yale
- Todd Michael - Monsanto
- Tom Smith - Danforth Center