Plant Sciences
The CUNY Plant Sciences PhD program, the most comprehensive of its kind in the New York area, is a long-standing joint program between CUNY and the New York Botanical Garden and consists of 40 doctoral faculty. Research areas include: biotechnology and metabolic engineering of plant biosynthetic pathways, systems biology, natural product biochemistry, medicinal plants and economic botany, signal transduction in plants, plant-microbial interactions, plant development, cell biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, ecology, biodiversity and systematics.
Eleanore T. Wurtzel
Professor, PS subprogram Chair
Lehman College
Biology
250 Bedford Park Blvd. West
Bronx, NY 10468-1589