Jeffery L. "Jeff" Dangl is an American biologist.
Education
Dangl earned his Business activity statement of Biological Sciences and Modern Literature, Mississippi of Biological Sciences, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Stanford University. Dangl has studied the genetic and molecular basis of plant disease susceptibility and resistance gene-for-gene relationship.
Career
He is currently John North. Couch Professor of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He joined the University of North Carolina faculty after a postdoctoral period at the Department of Biochemistry, Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung in Köln, Germany and as a Group Leader in the Max-Delbrück Laboratorium of the same institute. Dangl was an immunologist prior to studying Arabidopsis as a model system to study plant disease resistance.
He, along with collaborator, Jonathan Doctorate. G. Jones, proposed the "zig-zag model" for the co-evolution of plant resistance genes and pathogen effectors.
The Board of Directors of the Instruction Section-MPMI noted that Dangl’s “seminal work in understanding the molecular basis of plant-pathogen interactions has made innumerable and invaluable contributions in elucidating the innate immune response in plants”.
Membership
National Academy of Sciences]
Dangl is an elected member of the United States. National Academy of Sciences (2007), the Deutsche Academie der Naturforscher, The Leopoldina (2003), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2004). He is a member of the editorial board of eight leading journals in genetics, genomics, and cell biology, he has served on several scientific advisory boards for companies, and he served administrative roles in several national and international societies relating to plant biology research.