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Dr. Chris Brown Visiting Associate Professor (Department of Botany) & Director of Space Programs North Carolina State University Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology & Science 1017 Main Campus Drive Partners Building I, Suite 3200 Box 7006 Raleigh, NC 27695 Phone: 919.515.5118 Fax: 919.515.5831 Email: cbrown@ncsu.edu

Education

Ph.D., Botany, NC State University, 1987
M.S., Horticulture, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1984
B.S., Botany, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1981

Research Interests

Plant gravitational and space genomics and physiology; bioregenerative life support systems; space-based horticultural systems

Selected Publications

• Kimbrough, J, R Salinas-Mondragon, I Perera, C Brown, W Boss and H Sederoff 2004. The fast and transient transcriptional network of gravity and mechanical stimulation in the Arabidopsis apex tips. Plant Physiol(in press)
  
  
• Goins GD, MM Sanwo-Lewandoski, CS Brown, NC Yorio, RM Wheeler, and JC Sager 2004. Gas exchange and chloroplast fluorescence characteristics of wheat leaves developed under narrow-spectrum red and blue light from light-emitting diodes. Ann Bot. (submitted).
  
  
• Klymchuk, DO, EL Kordyum, CS Brown, DK Chapman and TV Vorobyova 2003. Changes in vacuolation in the root apex cells of soybean seedlings in microgravity. Adv. Space Res. 31(10):2283-2288.
  
  
• Nedukha, OM , EL Kordyum and CS Brown 2003, Microgravity affects the structural-functional organization of soybean cotyledon cells. Adv. Space Res. (submitted).
  
  
• Sanwo-Lewandowski, MM, GD Goins , NC Yorio, CS Brown 2004. Carbohydrate metabolism in wheat plants grown under red and blue light. Journal of Experimental Botany (submitted).