Edgar P. Spalding

Thirty interesting years brought me from a zygote to a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I spent the next 30 years working in Birge Hall – in the same office and lab, the same desk, and sitting on the same wooden chair! Now it is somebody else’s turn. I hope they have as much fun and satisfaction in the role as I did.
Edgar Spalding
January 5, 2024

Teaching and Research
Some reviews of my teaching written by students are here (Rate My Professor).

Here is my Google Scholar profile

some Recent Publications

Bustamante JA, Miller ND, Spalding EP (2025) Separate sites of action for cry1 and phot1 blue-light receptors in the Arabidopsis hypocotyl. Current Biology 35: 100-108 The university prepared a press release about this research.

Henry AR, Miller ND, Spalding EP (2024) QTL for the kinematic traits that define the Arabidopsis root elongation zone and their relationship to gravitropism. Plants 13: 1189

Henry AR, Miller ND, Spalding EP (2023) Patch Track software for measuring kinematic phenotypes of Arabidopsis roots demonstrated on auxin transport mutants. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 24: 16475

Che X, Splitt BL, Eckholm MT, Miller ND, Spalding EP (2023) BRXL4-LAZY1 interaction at the plasma membrane controls Arabidopsis branch angle and gravitropism. The Plant Journal 113: 211-224

Yoshihara T, Miller ND, Rabanal FA, Myles H, Kwak I-Y, Broman KW, Sadkin B, Baxter I, Dilkes BP, Hudson ME, Spalding EP (2022) Leveraging orthology within maize and Arabidopsis QTL to identify genes affecting natural variation in gravitropism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 119: e2212199119

Geitmann A, Mulder BM, Persson S, Spalding EP (2022) Modeling the molecular structures and dynamics responsible for the remarkable mechanical properties of a plant cell wall. Faculty Reviews 11: 24 (PDF)

Hobbies and Current Activities
Separate from my academic interests are my naturalizing hobbies – finding and photographing birds, butterflies, and dragonflies primarily. I am the current president of the Wisconsin Dragonfly Society.