Dr. Brian Ellis joins the Michael Smith Laboratories

Dr. Brian Ellis joins the Michael Smith Laboratories as a Professor while remaining jointly appointed in the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences (now the Faculty of Land and Food Systems). Dr. Ellis is a plant science researcher, who’s earlier work investigated metabolic pathways and enzymes in plants, with a focus on signal transduction. His work evolved to focus on mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK/Ks) signalling pathways, using Arabidopsis as a model organism, to understand the role they could play in the response and survival of plants in their environment. From 2009-2015, Dr. Ellis also ran a project called Working on Walls (WoW) to closely study plant cell wall biogenesis.