Lewis Jeffrey Feldman (born October 10, 1945) is a professor of
plant biology
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at the
University of California, Berkeley
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, Director of the
University of California Botanical Garden
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and previously Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the
College of Natural Resources
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Austria
*University of Natural Resources and Life ...
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He is in the
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology. Feldman has taught at Berkeley since 1978.
He received Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1996.
meristem
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s/stem cells
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, root gravitropism, and redox regulation of plant development.
After graduating in 1963 from Sunset High School in Hayward, California
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, Feldman attended the University of California, Davis
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, earning a B.S. in 1967, then an M.S. in 1969, both in Botany.[ He received a Ph.D. in biology from ]Harvard University
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in 1975.[
Feldman is a fellow of the ]California Academy of Sciences
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Honors and awards
* The Jeanette Siron Pelton Award - 1980[
* Distinguished Teaching Award - University of California, Berkeley - 1996][
* Outstanding Mentorship of Graduate Student Instructors - 1999]
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Other writings
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Notes
References
* Feldman is quoted extensively in this article.
External links
Feldman's profile on his department's website
Plant & Microbial Biology Department
UC Berkeley
College of Natural Resources
UC Berkeley
Online videos
* Lectures from UC Berkeley's Biology 1B course, Spring 2012. Most of these videos are about 50 minutes long.
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21st-century American botanists
1945 births
Living people
University of California, Berkeley College of Natural Resources faculty
People associated with the California Academy of Sciences
University of California, Davis alumni
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Scientists from the San Francisco Bay Area
20th-century American biologists
Sunset High School (Hayward, California) alumni