Professor of Botany
College of Agricultural & Life Sciences
Hiroshi Maeda is a professor of botany at UW–Madison who studies plant metabolism to develop climate change solutions. Combining biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, analytical chemistry, and synthetic biology, the Maeda lab investigates how plants regulate the conversion of carbon dioxide into chemicals and ways to enhance the production of beneficial compounds.
Research Interests
- Evolutionary diversification of tyrosine biosynthesis and downstream natural product pathways
- Regulation of the Shikimate and aromatic amino acid pathways in plants
- Crop-based production of natural products through synthetic biology
- Amino acid sensing and response mechanisms in plants
- Defining the nitrogen flux maps (NFMs) of plants