Dr. Pal Maliga

Pal Maliga is Distinguished Professor of Plant Biology at Rutgers University. He obtained an MS degree at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest and a PhD at József Attila University (JATE) in Szeged, Hungary. Since at Rutgers his research group developed methods for the stable transformation of land plant chloroplast genomes. Chloroplast genome engineering in higher plants has led to an explosion of research concerning the chloroplast genome’s role in photosynthesis, functional analysis of plastid genes by reverse genetics, and mechanisms of plastid gene regulation. His current research interests are development of reproducible protocols for plastid transformation in Arabidopsis thaliana, including Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of the chloroplast genome, and expression of recombinant proteins in tobacco chloroplasts.