John A. Morgan, Ph.D.

Once upon a time, prevailing scientific opinion might have pronounced recently published research in Nature Communications by a team of Purdue University scientists as unneeded. Now, climate change implications have heightened the need for this line of research.

Flowers emit scent chemicals called volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Earlier this year, the Purdue team published the paper identifying for the first time a protein that plays a key role in helping petunias emit volatiles. The article was selected for the “plants and agriculture” section of the journal’s editors’ highlights webpage.

Natalia Dudareva, who led the study, and her longtime collaborator John Morgan had suggested years ago in grant proposals that molecular processes could be involved in VOC emission. Both times the grant reviewers said there was nothing to look for because simple diffusion was the answer… Continue reading.

WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of John A. Morgan, Ph.D., Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Morgan was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For seminal work on the computation prediction and experimental quantification of metabolic fluxes in photosynthetic organisms.