Joseph Jez

Joseph Jez is the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor and Spencer T. Olin Professor in Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. His research examines how environmental changes remodel biochemical pathways in plants at molecular, cellular, and organismal levels. The lab employs X-ray crystallography, enzymology, molecular biology, proteomics, and plant biology to study metabolic regulation, plant hormone responses, and metabolic pathways in nematodes.

Key research areas include: 1) Metabolic regulation in environmental responses 2) Enzymatic control of plant hormones 3) Metabolic pathways in C. elegans. Jez developed the Biotech Explorers Pathway for undergraduate research training. Recent publications appear in Science, Journal of Biological Chemistry, and Nature Chemical Biology.