John A. Morgan
Professor
Ph.D Rice University
jamorgan@purdue.edu
765-494-4088
1058 FRNY
https://engineering.purdue.edu/ChE/people/ptProfile?resource_id=11220
Biotechnology
Plant Biology
Active Mentor - currently hosting PULSe students for laboratory rotations and recruiting PULSe students into the laboratory; serves on preliminary exam committees
Current Research Interests:
Metabolic engineering of photosynthetic organisms Metabolic Flux Analysis Metabolic Modeling Mass transfer of VOCs in flowers.
Selected Publications:
Cuticle thickness affects dynamics of volatile emission from petunia flowers P Liao, S Ray, B Boachon, JH Lynch, A Deshpande, S McAdam, ... Nature Chemical Biology 17 (2), 138-145 1 2021
Metabolic flux analysis of secondary metabolism in plants ML Shih, JA Morgan Metabolic engineering communications 10, e00123 14 2020
Modeling plant metabolism: from network reconstruction to mechanistic models TJ Clark, L Guo, J Morgan, J Schwender Annual review of plant biology 71, 303-326 2 2020
Combining random mutagenesis and metabolic engineering for enhanced tryptophan production in Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 A Deshpande, J Vue, J Morgan Applied and environmental microbiology 86: 4 2020
Combining isotopically non-stationary metabolic flux analysis with proteomics to unravel the regulation of the calvin-benson-bassham cycle in synechocystis sp. Pcc 6803 NYK Hing, F Liang, P Lindblad, JA Morgan Metabolic engineering 56, 77-84
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