Leeann Thornton

Leeann Thornton is a Professor of Biology at The College of New Jersey. At TCNJ, Leeann has taught a variety of courses ranging from first-year biology and general seminars to advanced plant genetics and senior capstone courses. She was recently the First-Year Seminar Program Director. Leeann has been active in ASPB for most of her career and has served on the Membership Committee and Council. Leeann helped establish the Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUI) section to get more scientists from colleges and universities that do not grant PhDs involved in ASPB. Prior to TCNJ, Leeann did her postdoc work at Washington University in St. Louis and began studying the role of cytochrome P450 enzymes in plant responses to the environment. She has studied these enzymes in Arabidopsis, rice, and maize to determine the structure and function relationships for subfamilies within the CYP72 clade.