Gloria M. Coruzzi, Ph.D

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Dr. Coruzzi is currently the Carroll & Milton Petrie Professor at New York University’s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology. Her research in Plant Systems Biology combines genomic, bioinformatic, and system biology approaches to identify gene networks involved in biological regulatory mechanisms controlling nitrogen use efficiency. A native New Yorker, Dr. Coruzzi received her Ph.D. in Molecular & Cell Biology at New York University School of Medicine in yeast genetics, where she decoded the yeast mitochondrial genome. These studies revealed that TGA codes for tryptophan in yeast mitochondria, a discovery subsequently found in humans. As post-doctoral fellow at Rockefeller University (1980-83), she began studies of plant molecular biology by cloning one of the first plant nuclear genes. As an Assistant and then Associate Professor at Rockefeller University, Dr. Coruzzi began her studies of the genes in the nitrogen assimilatory pathway. Since joining NYU as the Carroll & Milton Petrie Professor of Biology in 1991, Dr. Coruzzi’s lab has initiated genomic and systems biology approaches in Arabidopsis and crop species to study gene regulatory networks underlying Nitrogen Use Efficiency. This work has included the development of new bioinformatic and systems biology approaches. The over-arching achievement of Dr. Coruzzi’s research has been to develop Systems Biology approaches to predictively model how internal and external perturbations affect processes, pathways & networks controlling plant metabolism, growth and development. Her current studies exploit time - the 4th and largely unexplored dimension of transcriptional networks - to temporally perturb TF function and to predict and validate dynamic gene regulatory (GRNs) models that can forecast network states at future time-points, a major goal of systems biology. Dr. Coruzzi’s system biology studies involve collaborations with colleagues at NYU Courant Institute for Math & Computer Science. Dr. Coruzzi is also engaged in a collaborative NSF Plant Genome Project on the Comparative Genomics of Seed Evolution with co-PIs at the New York Botanical Garden, the American Museum of Natural History, and Cold Spring Harbor labs. Dr. Coruzzi’s research is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the NSF Plant Genome Program, the Department of Energy and the Zegar Family Foundation. Dr. Coruzzi was named an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow in 2005, a Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biology in 2010, was awarded the ASPB Stephen Hales Prize in 2015, was named Distinguished Counselor to the Board, The New York Botanical Garden in 2017, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, Plant Biology Section in 2019. Coruzzi currently serves on several science editorial boards including; The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, G3: Genes, Genomes and Genetics, and scientific advisory boards including the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Scientific Advisory Committee and their Plant Program Advisory Board. In addition to her research, Prof. Coruzzi is devoted to mentoring undergraduate and high school STEM students to apply computational approaches to biology.
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