User:Ivan Baxter

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Ivan Baxter Research Computational Biologist USDA Plant Genetics Research Unit & Donald Danforth Plant Science Center St Louis, Mo, USA

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About Me
I am interested in understanding how plants regulate the mobilization, uptake, translocation, and storage of elements in different environments.

The focus of our attempts to study this question is Ionomics. We analyze the elemental content of 500-1000 samples per week using ICP-MS. To make sense of the data coming off the machine, we also need to collect data about the environment the plants were grown in and how the samples were processed. To record all this information, control the workflows, and store and analyze the data, we created the Purdue Ionomics Information Management System (PiiMS). This system has helped the great ionomics team I work with to map several genes important for elemental accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana. But to really answer this question we will also need to understand how all the genes/transcripts/proteins/metabolites interact to control the ionome (all of the mineral elements in a cell, tissue, or organism).

I am also the Plant Biology section editor of PLoS ONE and a big supporter of Open Access.

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Education

 * 2004-2009 Post-Doc in the Salt Lab at Purdue University.
 * 2004, PhD, Macromolecular and Cellular Structure and Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institue
 * 1996, BA, Chemistry, Goucher College

Publications
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 * 1) Paper16 Guerinot, ML, Baxter I, Salt DE. (2009) From the ionome to the genome: Identifying gene networks that control the mineral content of plants. In Plant Systems Biology. Coruzzi G and Gutierrez R, eds. Wiley Publishing. Link
 * 2) Paper15 pmid=19481970
 * 3) Paper14 pmid=19461889 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000492
 * 4) Paper13 Danku J, Gumaelius L, Baxter I, Salt DE. (2009) A high-throughput method for Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast) ionomics. J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 24, 103 - 107,10.1039/b803529f
 * 5) Paper12 pmid=18697928
 * 6) Paper11 pmid=18454190
 * 7) Paper10 pmid=18251712
 * 8) Paper9 pmid=17626786
 * 9) Paper8 pmid=17189337
 * 10) Paper7 pmid=16804534
 * 11) Paper6 pmid=17140289
 * 12) Paper5 pmid=15480887
 * 13) Paper4 pmid=15695592
 * 14) Paper3 pmid=12805592
 * 15) Paper2 pmid=11532165
 * 16) Paper1 pmid=11670657

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