Professor Vladimir Shulaev is a faculty member of the Plant Signaling Cluster in the Department of Biological Sciences at UNT at UNT. The Signaling Mechanisms in Plants research cluster draws upon existing expertise and emerging research strengths in cell biology, biochemistry, genetics, metabolomics and informatics to study how plants use cellular communication - a complex network of molecular signals - in their growth, development and defense responses to stress. Manipulating signaling mechanisms in plants also will lead to new technologies in agriculture, human nutrition, phytoremediation of environmental toxicants and sustainable energy. Prof. Shulaev holds dual Ph.Ds. in Biological Sciences and Plant Biology and has over 30 years research experience working at academia and industry. At UNT he established the state of the art Metabolomics facility and heads the Center for Metabolic Signaling Research and Biochemical Profiling Group. Before joining UNT Prof. Shulaev was a faculty at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and led research programs at several biotechnology companies. Prof. Shulaev research is focusing on metabolomics technology, bioinformatics for metabolomics and application of metabolomics to solve important biological questions. His research group develop novel analytical techniques for both targeted and non-targeted metabolomics using mass spectrometry platforms and applied metabolomics platform to systems biology, fruit functional genomics, gene function elucidation, cancer development and progression, malaria and mode of action of antimalarial drugs, modeling and simulation of biological networks, and yeast systems biology.