Professor
Howard H. und Maryam R. Newman Lehrstuhl für Pflanzenbiologie
Wilkinson, E.G., Sageman-Furnas, K., Pereyra, M.E., Borniego, M.B., Casal, J.J., Strader, L.C. AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR thermostability. (2026) Nature Communications. 17(1). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-71012-y
Borniego, M.B., Pereyra, M.E., Sageman-Furnas, K., Rossi, A.H., Wilkinson, E.G., Strader, L.C., Casal, J.J. Thermosensory reconfiguration of the auxin transcriptional pathway to drive root cell growth. (2026) Nature Communications. 17(1). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-71011-z
Kim, J., Strader, L., Damodaran, S. Cytokinin signaling mediated by KMD2 promotes Arabidopsis hypocotyl grafting success. (2026) MicroPubl Biol. 2026. DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.001768
Pathak, S., Chakravarti, A., Bersche, C., Joseph, J.A., Strader, L.C. Molecular basis for thermoresponsive protein condensation in plants. (2025) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.64898/2025.12.18.695255
Ma, Q., Liu, S., Doyle, S.M., Raggi, S., Pařízková, B., Barange, D.K., Ratnakaram, H., Wilkinson, E.G., Crespo Garcia, I., Bygdell, J., Wingsle, G., Boer, D.R., Strader, L.C., Almqvist, F., Novák, O., Robert, S. RACK1A positively regulates opening of the apical hook in via suppression of its auxin response gradient. (2025) Verhandlungen der Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. 122(30):e2407224122. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2407224122
Strader, L.C., Edwards, D., Sureshkumar, S., Balasubramanian, S., Chen, T., Dong, X., Antunes, M.S., Zebluim, L., Chaisupa, P., Wright, R.C. Core biological principles and tools stemming from basic Arabidopsis research. (2025) Pflanzenzelle. 37(7). DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koaf141
Damodaran, S., Strader, L.C. Protocol for determining regulators of competence in regeneration of adventitious roots using hypocotyl wounding approach in Arabidopsis. (2025) STAR Protokoll. 6(2):103818. DOI: 10.1016/j.xpro.2025.103818
Due, A.D., Davey, N.E., Thomasen, F.E., Morffy, N., Prestel, A., Brakti, I., O'Shea, C., Strader, L.C., Lindorff-Larsen, K., Skriver, K., Kragelund, B.B. Hierarchy in regulator interactions with distant transcriptional activation domains empowers rheostatic regulation. (2025) Protein Science. 34(6):e70142. DOI: 10.1002/pro.70142
Friesner, J., Argueso, C.T., Busch, W., Hamann, T., Strader, L., Williams, M., Wu, S., Roeder, A.H.K. In defense of funding foundational plant science. (2025) Pflanzenzelle. DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koaf106
Chauhan, G., Wilkinson, E.G., Yuan, Y., Cohen, S.R., Onishi, M., Pappu, R.V., Strader, L.C. Active transport enables protein condensation in cells. (2025) Science Advances. 11(21):eadv7875. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adv7875
Roeder, A.H.K., Argueso, C.T., Williams, M., Auge, G., Li, X., Strader, L., Uauy, C., Wu, S. Focus on Translational Research from Arabidopsis to Crop Plants and Beyond. (2025) Pflanzenzelle. 37(5). DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koaf119
Prigge, M.J., Morffy, N., de Neve, A., Szutu, W., Abraham-Juárez, M.J., McAllister, T., Jones, H., Johnson, K., Do, N., Lavy, M., Hake, S., Strader, L.C., Estelle, M., Richardson, A.E. Comparative mutant analyses reveal a novel mechanism of ARF regulation in land plants. (2025) Nature Plants. 11(4):821-835. DOI: 10.1038/s41477-025-01973-3
Allen, J.R., Flanagan, M., Pathak, S., Emenecker, S.K., Emenecker, R.J., Strader, L.C. An improved toolkit of gateway- and gibson assembly-compatible vectors for protoplast transfection and agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation. (2025) BMC Res Notes. 18(1):149. DOI: 10.1186/s13104-025-07231-1
Delaforge, E., Due, A.D., Theisen, F.F., Morffy, N., O'Shea, C., Blackledge, M., Strader, L.C., Skriver, K., Kragelund, B.B. Allovalent scavenging of activation domains in the transcription factor ANAC013 gears transcriptional regulation. (2025) Nucleic Acids Research. 53(4). DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaf065
Pérez-Henríquez, P., Nagawa, S., Liu, Z., Pan, X., Michniewicz, M., Tang, W., Rasmussen, C., Cui, X., Van Norman, J., Strader, L., Yang, Z. PIN2-mediated self-organizing transient auxin flow contributes to auxin maxima at the tip of Arabidopsis cotyledons. (2025) Nature Communications. 16(1):1380. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-55480-8
BS, Agronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
PhD, Molecular Plant Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Postdoctoral Fellow, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, TX