Achievement

IGERT student Timothy Jobe's research is focused on understanding the genetic basis of toxic metal tolerance in plants. He is currently developing powerful new approaches to determine how plants respond to the toxic metal(loid)s cadmium and arsenic, which are commonly found in contaminated soil and surface waters. A recent publication describes his collaborative work with the Komives laboratory, which identifies and characterizes two new cadmium-sensitive mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana (Jobe et al. 2011, The Plant Journal). He is currently working closely with members of the Kay laboratory to identify transcriptional regulators of key cadmium and arsenic detoxification genes.