Researchers in developmental biology, stem cells, and plant biology

Elvin C. Stakman

Elvin C. Stakman (1885–1979) was an American plant pathologist at the University of Minnesota who established methods for combating wheat rust fungi and mentored Norman Borlaug.

Emanuel Epstein

Emanuel Epstein (1916–2022) was an American plant physiologist at UC Davis, called the father of modern root physiology, who first applied enzyme kinetics to ion uptake in roots.

Emi Nishimura

Emi Nishimura (西村栄美) is a Japanese stem cell biologist at the University of Tokyo known for identifying melanocyte stem cells and linking their loss to hair graying.

Emmanuel Fauré-Frémiet

Emmanuel Fauré-Frémiet (1883–1971) was a French biologist who held the chair of comparative embryology at the Collège de France from 1928 to 1954 and became a central figure in ciliate protozoology.

Enrico Coen

Enrico S. Coen, born in Liverpool in 1957, is a British plant molecular geneticist at the John Innes Centre whose snapdragon mutant screens helped establish the ABC model of flower development.

Eran Pichersky

Eran Pichersky is a plant biochemist and emeritus professor at the University of Michigan known for research on how plants make volatile scent and flavor compounds.

Erez Raz is an Israeli-born developmental and cell biologist, professor and institute director at the University of Münster, known for showing that chemokine SDF-1 guides zebrafish germ cell migration.

Eric D. Siggia

Eric D. Siggia is an American theoretical physicist turned developmental biologist at The Rockefeller University, known for quantitative studies of morphogenesis and human embryonic stem-cell self-organization.

Eric H. Davidson

Eric H. Davidson (1937–2015) was an American developmental biologist at Caltech who showed that animal development is controlled by gene regulatory networks, working chiefly on the sea urchin.

Eric J. Richards

Eric J. Richards is a plant molecular biologist and professor at the Boyce Thompson Institute in Ithaca, New York, known for discovering the DDM1 methylation mutant in Arabidopsis.

Eric S. Weinberg

Eric S. Weinberg, also Eric Weinberg (1942/43–2026), was an American molecular developmental biologist and professor emeritus at Penn, known for sea urchin histone gene regulation and zebrafish developmental genetics.

Eric Wieschaus

Eric F. Wieschaus, born 1947 in South Bend, Indiana, is an American developmental biologist who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize for discoveries on the genetic control of embryonic development.

Erich Grotewold

Erich Grotewold is an Argentine-trained plant molecular biologist at Michigan State University known for his work on how transcription factors control the flavonoid pigmentation pathways of maize.

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Ernest McCulloch

Ernest Armstrong McCulloch (1926–2011) was a Canadian cellular biologist who, with James Till, created the 1961 spleen colony assay, the first quantitative method for identifying stem cells.

Ernst Hadorn

Ernst Hadorn (1902–1976) was a Swiss developmental biologist and geneticist, professor of zoology and rector at the University of Zurich, known for discovering transdetermination in Drosophila imaginal discs.

Ernst Hafen

Ernst Hafen (born 1956) is a Swiss developmental geneticist who showed how fruit flies control cell and organ size, and served as President of ETH Zurich from 2005.

Erwin Frink Smith

Erwin Frink Smith (1854–1927) was an American plant pathologist with the USDA who proved bacteria cause plant diseases and identified the crown gall bacterium in 1907.

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Étienne Wolff

Étienne Wolff (1904–1996) was a French experimental embryologist who founded experimental teratogenesis, showing in 1936 that aimed X-ray beams reproduce major malformations in chick embryos, and who led a French school at the Collège de France.

Eugene W. Nester

Eugene W. Nester is an American microbiologist and University of Washington professor emeritus whose laboratory showed that Agrobacterium causes crown gall disease by transferring DNA into plant cells.

Eugenia del Pino

Eugenia del Pino is an Ecuadorian developmental biologist who studied the marsupial frogs of Ecuador for four decades and was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2006.

Eugenia Russinova

Eugenia Russinova, known as Jenny Russinova, is a Bulgarian plant cell biologist and VIB group leader in Ghent, Belgium, since 2006, known for work on brassinosteroid receptors and endocytosis.

Eui-Hwan Chung (정의환)

Eui-Hwan Chung (정의환) is a South Korean plant immunologist and associate professor at Korea University in Seoul, known for discoveries about plant immune receptor activation.

Eva Kondorosi

Eva Kondorosi (Kondorosi Éva), born 1948 in Budapest, is a Hungarian and French plant molecular biologist who established the genetics of the Rhizobium–legume symbiosis and received the 2018 Balzan Prize.

Éva Mezey

Éva Mezey, also published as Eva Mezey, is a Hungarian-born physician-scientist who heads the Adult Stem Cell Section at NIH's NIDCR in Bethesda, Maryland, known for showing that transplanted bone marrow cells enter the brain.

Eva-Mari Aro

Eva-Mari Aro, born 1950, is a Finnish plant molecular biologist and professor emerita at the University of Turku, known for research on photodamage and repair of the photosynthetic apparatus.

Evan H. DeLucia

Evan H. DeLucia, also published as E. H. DeLucia, is an American plant biologist and G. William Arends Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Fábio Rossi

Fábio Rossi, also known as Fabio M.V. Rossi, is an Italian-trained physician-scientist and professor at the University of British Columbia known for stem cell research.

Fang‐Jie Zhao

Fang-Jie Zhao (赵方杰) is a Chinese plant nutrition researcher, a professor at Nanjing Agricultural University since 2012 after twenty years at Rothamsted Research, known for discovering how arsenic enters rice.

Fanxin Long

Fanxin Long is an American bone and developmental biologist who studies how signaling pathways control osteoblast differentiation, holding an endowed chair at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia since 2018.