Professor
Phone: (609) 771-2875
Email: thornton@tcnj.edu
Office: Biology Building, Room 119
Lab: Biology Building, Room 221, x3065
Current Courses
- Foundations of Biological Inquiry
- Biology of Seed Plants
- Plant Genetics
- Biology Senior Seminar
- FSP: Nature on Your Plate
Research Interest
- Plant responses to the environment
- Cytochrome P450 regulation of plant stress responses
- Relationship between structure and function in metabolic proteins
- Molecular genetics of multi-gene protein families
Degrees Earned
- B.S. – James Madison University, Biology; 1998
- Ph.D. – Washington University in St. Louis, Plant Biology; 2004