Vivian Irish

Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Departments & Organizations

Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development: Genetics and Genomics

Center for RNA Science and Medicine, Yale

Plant Development

Research Interests

developmental genetics; Arabidopsis; evolution of development

Education

• B.A., Wesleyan University, 1980
• Ph.D., Harvard University, 1986

Selected Publications

• Huang T, López-Giráldez F, Townsend JP, Irish VF. 2012. RBE controls microRNA164 expression to effect floral organogenesis. Development, in press.
• Mara CD, Huang T, Irish VF. 2010. The Arabidopsis floral homeotic proteins APETALA3 and PISTILLATA negatively regulate the BANQUO genes implicated in light signaling. The Plant Cell 22: 690-702.
• Irish VF. 2010. The flowering of Arabidopsis flower development. Plant Journal 61: 1014-1028