Thomas BjörkmanProfessor of Vegetable Crop PhysiologySection of Horticulture Email: tnb1@cornell.edu B.S. Biochemistry, University of California, Davis, 1979 |
2017 - present | Professor, Section of Horticulture, Cornell University Vegetable crop physiology; plant-environment interactions; root growth physiology. |
1996 - 2017 | Associate Professor, Dept. of Horticultural Sciences, Cornell University |
1990 - 1996 | Assistant Professor, Dept. of Horticultural Sciences, Cornell University |
1986 - 1990 | NASA Research
Associate, Botany Department, University of Washington Calcium signalling in gravitropism (Robert E. Cleland) |
2000 | Visiting Associate Professor,
Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology,
University of California, Los Angeles Localization of homeotic gene expression during floral transition (Jack Okamuro and Bob Goldberg) |
1984-1986 | Graduate Student, Boyce Thompson Institute Gravity sensing in root statocytes (Carl Leopold) |
1980-1984 | NSF Graduate Fellow, Department of Agronomy, Cornell University Acclimation to drought stress. (Peter L. Steponkus) |
1980 | Visiting graduate student. Plant Physiology, University of Lund, Sweden (Anders Kylin and Tomas Lundborg) |
1977-1979 | Undergraduate research assistant. University of California, Davis. Chilling injury in tomato roots (Bill Breidenbach) |
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List of Publications People in the lab |
Professional Societies and Service |
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Vegetable Crop Program Work Team, Cornell Cooperative Extension Chair, National Issues Committee, American Society for Horticultural Science Chair, Geneva Arboretum Association, Cornell AgriTech |
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York State Agricultural Experiment Station
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Telephone: 315.787.2218