Primary Job Title Co-Founder Primary Organization AgBiome
Location Durham, North Carolina, United States Regions Research Triangle, East Coast, Southern US Gender Male
Jeff Dangl is currently John N. Couch Professor of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as an HHMI investigator.
Dangl earned his BAS in Biological Sciences and English (Modern Literature), MS in Biological Sciences, and Ph.D. in Genetics from Stanford University. As a graduate student at Stanford, Dangl studied
antibody structure-function correlates of chimeric monoclonal antibodies in mice, earning his degree in genetics and immunology. Those fields fueled his scientific curiosity when he moved to the Max Planck Institute in Cologne, Germany, on a National Science Foundation postdoctoral program aimed at attracting scientists trained outside the field of plant molecular biology to move into it. During nine years in Germany, including six as a group leader at the Max Delbrück Laboratory, he developed Arabidopsis into a model for studying plant–pathogen defense.
