Education
She obtained her bachelor"s degree in Biology from Oberlin College, Ohio, and her Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology from the University of Illinois.
She obtained her bachelor"s degree in Biology from Oberlin College, Ohio, and her Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology from the University of Illinois.
Chory is a professor and director of the Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and a investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She holds the Howard H. and Maryam R. Newman Chair in Plant Biology. She is also an adjunct professor in the Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego.
She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Medical School in the lab of Frederick M. Ausubel.
In 1988 she joined the Salk Institute as an Assistant Professor. 2015 Elected to the American Philosophical Society 1994 Award for Initiatives in Research (1994) Chory is interested in identifying the mechanisms by which plants respond to changes in their light environment.
Light signals are required for the induction and regulation of many developmental processes in plants. She has participated in research dissecting this complex process by isolating mutations that alter light-regulated seedling development in Arabidopsis.
Her work has identified mutants that are deficient in the phytochrome photoreceptors and in nuclear-localized repressors and has also revealed that steroid hormones control light-regulated seedling development.
Doctor Chory"s lab has been involved in the manipulation of the biosynthetic pathway for these steroids that altered the growth and development of plants and identification of the putative steroid receptor, a transmembrane receptor kinase. Her group has also contributed towards the understanding of chloroplast to nuclear retrograde signaling and plant shade avoidance responses.
2015 Elected to the American Philosophical Society 2012 Genetics Society of America Medal 2011 Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society 2009 Elected Foreign Associate, Académie des Sciences, France 2008 Member, German National Academy of Sciences 2006 Associate Member, European Molecular Biology Organization 2005 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2004 Kumho Award in Plant Molecular Biology 2003 Scientific American 50: Research Leader in Agriculture 2000 L"Oreal-United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Award for Women in Science 1999 Elected Member of the United States. National Academy of Sciences 1998 Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1997 Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute 1995 Charles Albert Schull Award, awarded by American Society of Plant Biologists 1994 National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research (1994).
Royal Society; National Academy of Sciences]
2011 Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society
1999 Elected Member of the United States. National Academy of Sciences.
