Rebecca Mosher is Associate Professor in the School of Plant Sciences at the University of Arizona. She studies of gene silencing and how epigenetic information such as DNA methylation is passed from parent to offspring. This passage of information from one generation to the next is one of the fundamental rules of life.

Dr. Mosher’s start in science began at the University of Arizona when she was 15 and began a research assistantship in a plant genetics laboratory. She explored several different experimental systems over the years – from mammalian toxicology to fish ecology – but always came back to plant genetics. After a PhD in Genetics and Genomics from Duke University, Dr. Mosher pursued postdoctoral work at the John Innes Center and the University of Cambridge, supported by a Marshall- Sherfield Fellowship and a National Science Foundation International Research Fellowship. Dr. Mosher returned to The University of Arizona to begin her research group in 2010.

Dr. Mosher serves on the editorial boards of The Plant Cell, Plant Direct, and Trends in Plant Science, and is the recipient of The Bart Cardon Early Career Faculty Teaching Award.