Assistant Professor
Plant Biology
The Institute for Genomic Biology
United States of America
The major focus in the Huber laboratory is on identification of biological mechanisms that regulate important plant processes and impact growth and development. For example, sucrose synthesis and utilization; nitrate assimilation; and protein oil formation in developing soybean seeds. Studies include several levels but most work is focused on post-translational mechanisms. One such mechanism that plays an important role in the regulation of enzyme activity, but is still poorly understood in plant systems, is reversible protein phosphorylation. Each of the processes we are studying involves at least one enzyme that is phosphorylated.