Jennifer Normanly

Professor and Head

Plant Metabolic Engineering

Along with campus colleagues I am a steward of a recently acquired plant cell culture collection that is a discovery platform for new molecules with industrial, pharmaceutical, and agricultural applications. Our efforts are supported by the National Science Foundation and the UMass Amherst Center for Food, Agriculture and the Environment. This collection is maintained and distributed to the research community by the Institute for Applied Life Sciences Cell Culture core facility https://www.umass.edu/ials/pccl-database.

Current Research

I am collaborating with campus colleagues on the UMass Amherst ADVANCE IT project https://www.umass.edu/diversity/advance funded by the National Science Foundation to develop systemic and sustainable approaches to advance gender equity in ways that involve all faculty on campus.

I am a member of the leadership team funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Inclusive Excellence Program to increase institutional capacity for inclusion of all science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) majors. https://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/umass-amherst-receives-1-million-enhance

Learn more at www.biochem.umass.edu/faculty/jennifer-normanly

Academic Background

BA Biology, UC Santa Cruz
PhD Biology, California Institute of Technology
Postdoc, The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

Selected Publications

Misra, J., Smith-Doerr, L., Dasgupta, N., Weaver, G., and Normanly, J., Collaboration and Gender Equity among Academic Scientists, in Gender and STEM: Understanding Segregation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Maria Charles and Sarah Thébaud (Eds.) Pages: 284, October 2018 https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-03897-148-1 ISBN 978-3-03897-147-4 (Pbk); ISBN 978-3-03897-148-1 (PDF)

https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-03897-148-1

Pieck, Michael; Yuan, Youxi; Godfrey, Jason; Fisher, Chris; Zolj, Sanda; Thomas, Nicholas; Wu, Connie; Ramos, Julian; Lee, Norman; Normanly, Jennifer; Celenza, John. Auxin and Tryptophan Homeostasis Are Facilitated by the ISS1/VAS1 Aromatic Aminotransferase in Arabidopsis. "Genetics", vol doi:10.1534/genetics.115.180356, early online June 10, 2015

Lenka, S. K., Boutaoui, N., Paulose, B., Vongpaseuth, K., Normanly, J., Roberts, S. C., Walker, E. Identification and expression analysis of methyl jasmonate responsive ESTs in paclitaxel producing Taxus cuspidata suspension culture cells, BMC Genomics (2012) 13:148

Patil, R. A., Kolewe, M. E., Normanly, J., Walker, E. L., Roberts, S. C. Taxane biosynthetic pathway gene expression in Taxus suspension cultures with different bulk paclitaxel accumulation patterns – a molecular level approach to understand variability in paclitaxel accumulation Biotechnology Journal (2012) 7, 418–427

Normanly, J., (ed.), High-Throughput Phenotyping in Plants: Methods and Protocols, Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 918, (2012) Springer, New York, DOI 10.1007/978-1-61779-995-2