Lewis Jeffrey Feldman is a professor of plant biology

Botany

Botany, plant science, or plant biology is a branch of biology that involves the scientific study of plant life. Traditionally, botany also included the study of fungi, algae and viruses...

 at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

 and is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Natural Resources. He is in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology. Feldman has taught at Berkeley since 1978. He received Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1996. Feldman's research focuses on regulation of development in meristem

Meristem

A meristem is the tissue in most plants consisting of undifferentiated cells , found in zones of the plant where growth can take place....

s/stem cells, root gravitropism, and redox regulation of plant development.

After graduating in 1963 from Sunset High School in Hayward, California

Hayward, California

Hayward is a city located in the East Bay in Alameda County, California. With a population of 144,186, Hayward is the sixth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area and the third largest in Alameda County. Hayward was ranked as the 37th most populous municipality in California. It is included in...

, Feldman attended the University of California, Davis

University of California, Davis

The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...

, earning a B.S. in 1967, then an M.S., both in Botany. He received a Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 in 1975.

Feldman is a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences

California Academy of Sciences

The California Academy of Sciences is among the largest museums of natural history in the world. The academy began in 1853 as a learned society and still carries out a large amount of original research, with exhibits and education becoming significant endeavors of the museum during the twentieth...

.

Honors and awards

• The Jeanette Siron Pelton Award - 1980
• CNR Teaching Award - College of Natural Resources - 1992
• Distinguished Teaching Award - University of California, Berkeley - 1996
• Outstanding Mentorship of Graduate Student Instructors - 1999

External links

General Biology Online Course. This 50-minute video is Lecture 1 of Biology 1B (Introduction, Fungi) taught by Professor Feldman at UC Berkeley. Feldman begins speaking 4 minutes into the video.

• Feldman's profile from his department's website
• Plant & Microbial Biology Department, UC Berkeley
• College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley