Alexandra Jazz Dickinson, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego

 

2023 Moore Inventor Fellow

Alexandra Jazz Dickinson, Ph.D.
Image credit: Erik Jepsen, UC San Diego
 

Research Description

Dr. Jazz Dickinson’s invention leverages the natural chemistry of stress-resilient plants to harness growth and improve stress resilience in crops. She is using chemical imaging technologies to generate maps of the natural compounds present in developing plant tissue to test and optimize synergistic strategies to improve plant growth.

 
 

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Education

Post-doctoral, Duke University
Ph.D., University of North Carolina
B.A., Swarthmore College

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