Adrienne Roeder

Adrienne Roeder is an Associate Professor in the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology and the School of Integrative Plant Science, Section of Plant Biology at Cornell University. She has a longstanding interest in plant cell and developmental biology. Her group studies how plants generate cells with diverse sizes, ranging from giant to small, through regulating endoreduplication. On the flip side, her group also studies how plants form organs, such as sepals, with reproducible size despite variability of cells in their size, growth, and division. Strikingly, her lab is finding that plants utilize stochasticity or randomness to produce robustness and regularity.