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Daniel B. Szymanski

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

Established · publishing since 1993

Publications

111

Citations

4,854

Est. group size

~6

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

34

Publishing since 1993

Research summary
AI-generated

Daniel B. Szymanski studies how plant cells control their shape and growth, focusing on the roles of the cytoskeleton (internal cell scaffolding like microtubules and actin) and the cell wall in processes such as cotton fiber development and leaf pavement cell shaping. The lab combines molecular/genetic experiments with computational image analysis, including 3D microscopy, deep learning-based cell segmentation, and biomechanical modeling. This work is relevant to students interested in plant developmental biology, biophysics, and quantitative image analysis applied to biological systems.

Plant cell shape and growthCytoskeleton (microtubules/actin) dynamicsCotton fiber biology and cell wall compositionComputational and deep-learning image analysis for cell biologyBiomechanics of plant tissue morphogenesis

Publication output has grown over the last decade, rising from a few papers per year before 2021 to a sustained higher rate (roughly 5-7 per year) from 2021 onward.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 5.2/year recently
2017: 3 publications172018: 2 publications182019: 3 publications192020: 1 publication202021: 13 publications13212022: 5 publications222023: 6 publications232024: 6 publications242025: 7 publications252026: 2 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×14
  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY×6
  • The Plant Cell×4
  • Nature Plants×2
  • Molecular & Cellular Proteomics×2
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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