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Dr. Sussman is a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Sussman's main research focus is in signal transduction and bioenergetics of plant and fungi. His laboratory was the first to report the discovery of a unique family of calcium sensitive protein kinases found only in plants and in particular Arabidopsis. To help understand and study this class of enzymes in plants, he has developed a method of insertional mutagenesis to "knock out" genes in Arabidopsis. This molecular method can be applied to eliminating any gene in plants for studying individual genes as well as pathway metabolism. Dr. Sussman earned his Ph.D. at Michigan State University in 1976, and conducted Postdoctoral Research at Yale University and Yale Medical School. | 