James N. Siedow

jim.siedow@duke.edu
(919) 681-6438

Vice Provost for Research

Jim Siedow received his B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1969 and completed his Ph.D. in plant biochemistry from Indiana University in 1972. He did postdoctoral research at the University of Michigan and Rice University before joining the Duke faculty as an Assistant Professor of Botany in 1976. He became a Full Professor of Botany in 1987 and a Professor of Biology in 2000. He was a recipient of the Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award in 1984. Past service at Duke includes election to the Executive Committee of the Academic Council (1992-93) and Chair of the Academic Council (1994-96). He also served as the Dean of Faculty Development in Arts and Sciences from 1997-99. He became Vice Provost for Research in January, 2001.

Professionally, Siedow has held numerous positions in the American Society of Plant Biologists, including President, Chair of the Board of Trustees, Secretary, and Chair of the Public Affairs Committee. He spent a year as a Program Director of the Cellular Biochemistry Program at the National Science Foundation in 1998-99. He serves as a fellow on both the AAAS and ASPB and has served as an Associate Editor of the journal Plant Physiology and Editor of Plant Science and is currently an Associate Editor of The Journal of Biological Chemistry and Plant Molecular Biology and on the Editorial Boards of Current Opinion in Plant Biology and Genome Biology.

Siedow's research has involved the study of oxidative processes in higher plants with an emphasis on those related to plant respiration. A long-term project in his laboratory has involved characterizing the structural and regulatory features of the unusual cyanide-resistant oxidase found in all plant mitochondria. A second, long-term collaboration with a group at North Carolina State University led to elucidation of the molecular mode of action of a toxin associated with the fungus responsible for Southern Corn Leaf Blight.