Welcome to the home of the Dangl Lab on the Internet. Whether you are a current member of our group, a prospective employee, or just curious about what exactly our lab does, we hope you find the website informative and interesting.

The research here revolves around the plant Arabidopsis thaliana. This is used as a model to study the interactions that take place during infections by phytopathogenic bacteria and fungus. To learn more about the exact nature of our investigations, please look at the current projects, or some of the lab's recent publications.

We are located on the historic campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the first public school founded in the United States. Our lab is on the first floor of Coker Hall, near central campus. If you are interested in visiting, please contact Jeff Dangl. You might also find this map to Coker Hall helpful. For general visitor information and directions to Chapel Hill, check out the UNC Visitor site.

The Dangl Lab has more than 3000 square feet of dedicated space in Coker. This includes an isotope lab, a tissue culture and sterile growth room, a cold room with space for shared large equipment, a dark-room (with an X-ray developing machine), as well as office space for the PI, postdocs, and students. In addition we have access to the adjacent greenhouses on the south end of Coker that include 1250 square feet dedicated to Arabidopsis growth.

The lab is quite fortunate to be a part of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology. The department is extremely strong in important areas related to this project, such as the genetics of signal transduction in yeast and Drosophila, and the cell biology of cell division and pattern formation. In fact, with an expansion of the department's Plant Sciences section there are now six PIs working on Arabidopsis in Plant Molecular Genetics and Development, creating a diverse research and training environment.

Furthermore, the Department of Biology is part of a campus-wide Program in Biotechnology, providing micro-protein and DNA sequencing, DNA Expression Array spotting, oligonucleotide synthesis, and polyclonal antibody preparation for fee. We also have Affymetrix chip capabilities in the lab and a deep collaboration with Syngenta.

Our geographical location near the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina also places us in one of the leading areas for cutting-edge research in biotechnology. The RTP environment includes, beyond our colleagues at UNC, plant biologists at Duke, NC State, Novartis and Paradigm Genetics. Collectively, we meet once a month for the "Triangle Arabidopsis Group" informal workshop, for monthly Plant Biology seminars sponsored by the centrally located North Carolina Biotechnology Center, and once each year for the Plant Biology Retreat, typically attended by 130-140 area plant scientists.

If you have any further questions please contact Dr. Dangl, or for questons about the website, email the webmaster.