Using C. elegans as a model animal to study health-promoting effects from natural products. Engineering plants to be disease resistant and stress tolerant by transgenic approach and CRISPR-gene editing.
Program Faculty
- Rong Di
- Assistant Professor
- Department: Department of Plant Biology
- Graduate Program(s): Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
- Major Research Interest(s): Drug Discovery, Metabolism / Nutrition, Microbiome
- Research Techniques: Bioinformatics / Computational, Cell culture, Genetic engineering, Transcriptomics
- Research Organism(s): Bacteria, C. elegans, Cell lines, Viruses
- Phone: 1.8489326350
- Email:
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- Foran Hall
- 59 Dudley Road
- New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8520
- Key Words: Biotechnology, CRISPR-editing, C. elegans