Brad Binder Biography

Brad Binder started research on plants as an undergraduate in the lab of Rob Donaldson. He then switched to neurobiology and obtained a M.S. under the mentorship of Dave Atkins and then a doctorate from the Neurosciences Training Program at UW-Madison where he studied signal transduction in vertebrate rod photoreceptors in the lab of Deric Bownds. He switched back to plant research as a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Mike Sussman at UW-Madison studying calcium signaling in plants and then was a research scientist in the lab of Tony Bleecker where he started studying ethylene signal transduction. He joined the faculty of UT-Knoxville in 2008.