Research Snapshot

Ms. Cannon’s research is focused on identifying sites of release of ATP from plant cells and tissues, quantifying levels of extracellular ATP in living plant cells, and determining how these levels are regulated during tropistic growth responses of plants to gravity.

History with the Roux lab

Ashley obtained her undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX in 2011. She entered the Ph. D. program in Plant Biology in the Fall of that year, and began doing research in the Roux lab at the same time.