Assistant Professor of Biology
Ph.D., New York University/New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY, Biology, 2000; M.S. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Environmental Science, 1993; B.A., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Biology/English, 1984

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Personal Homepage: http://homepages.nyu.edu/%7Ekdb4348/

Research Interests:

Developmental and evolutionary genomics of plants. The origin and genetic programming of cell types.

Publications

• Cell-specific nitrogen responses mediate developmental plasticity.
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
  Gifford ML, Dean A, Gutierrez RA, Coruzzi GM, Birnbaum KD
  
  
• Global studies of cell type-specific gene expression in plants.
  Annu Rev Plant Biol
  Galbraith DW, Birnbaum K
  
  
• Cell type-specific expression profiling in plants via cell sorting of protoplasts from fluorescent reporter lines.
  Nat Methods
  Birnbaum K, Jung JW, Wang JY, Lambert GM, Hirst JA, Galbraith DW, Benfey PN
  
  
• Transcriptional profile of the Arabidopsis root quiescent center.
  Plant Cell
  Nawy T, Lee JY, Colinas J, Wang JY, Thongrod SC, Malamy JE, Birnbaum K, Benfey PN
  
  
• Network building: transcriptional circuits in the root.
  Curr Opin Plant Biol
  Birnbaum K, Benfey PN
  
  
• A gene expression map of the Arabidopsis root.
  Science
  Birnbaum K, Shasha DE, Wang JY, Jung JW, Lambert GM, Galbraith DW, Benfey PN
  
  
• Using cauliflower to find conserved non-coding regions in Arabidopsis.
  Plant Physiol
  Colinas J, Birnbaum K, Benfey PN
  
  

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