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Research Scientist
Department of Plant Science
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
United States of America
Doug received his Ph.D. in Engineering from Purdue University, and prior to joining the Center as a Research Computational Biologist with the USDA he worked for the Archer Daniels Midland Company and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at Michigan State University.The Allen lab is exploring oilseeds, such as soybean, that can provide the oils necessary to supplant some of our non-renewable dependencies. Among the greatest challenges associated with increased oil production in seeds and other plant tissues is improving our understanding of the metabolism that governs storage reserve composition (i.e protein, oil and carbohydrate).
Doug’s research is dedicated to understanding the metabolic networks of oilseed plants to enhance biomass composition using experimental and computational methods. These investigations give insight to plant metabolism, important for designing crops to meet future nutritional and chemical feedstock needs.