David Galbraith
Professor - School of Plant Sciences, BIO5 Institute, Biomedical Engineering, & Institute of the Environment, Arizona Cancer Center, Honorary Dean, Henan University, School of Life Sciences, Kaifeng, China
Educational Background
- David Galbraith received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Biochemistry from Cambridge University. He was a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University.
Research Interests
- Dr. Galbraith's research interests include biological instrumentation, developmental and tissue-specific gene expression in eukaryotes, functional genomics and proteomics, and issues in biodiversity. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science in 2002, and served as Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Genomic Assay Technology from 2011-2017. He is also an Associate Editor for Cytometry, and for Plant Methods. He was elected Secretary of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (I.S.A.C.) in 2016.
- Recent funding from the National Institutes of Health (N.C.I.) was used to explore early events in gene expression during the development of ductal adenocarcinoma in the pancreas, and from N.S.F. to develop hand-held devices to track plant and human pathogens. Current funding from the Arizona Department of Health addresses early events in prostate oncogenesis, and from the United States Department of Agriculture (via the B.A.R.D. program) investigates the molecular mechanisms underlying grape bud dormancy.