Dr. Sarah Liljegren,Associate Professor, received her Ph.D. (1999)from the University of California at San Diego and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies and UCSD. The focus of the Liljegren lab is to investigate whether a subset of the molecular circuits that regulate organ boundaries also specify the location and identity of abscission zone cells. This direction of research is supported by a five year National Science Foundation CAREER award to Dr. Liljegren in 2015.