Dong, Juan Professor

Cell polarity, in both animals and plants, is of paramount importance for many developmental and physiological processes. In the future, my lab will continue to use Arabidopsis as a model system, by studying BASL (Breaking of Asymmetry in the Stomatal Lineage) and other newly identified factors, to investigate how proteins become polarly localized, how polarity proteins are involved in establishment of cellular asymmetry, and how cell polarity is instructive of cell fate and differentiation in plants.