Karen Deak, Scientific Advisor

Dr. Deak is a scientific advisor in Sonnenschein’s Intellectual Property & Technology Practice.

Representative Experience

Karen Deak is a scientific advisor in Sonnenschein’s Intellectual Property & Technology group.  Her work focuses on patent preparation and prosecution in biotechnology and the life sciences.  She works with both university and industry clients.

Dr. Deak conducted her doctoral research at the University of Chicago using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.  Her research explored how plant form develops in response to environmental cues.  As an undergraduate researcher at UNC-Chapel Hill, she used Drosophila melanogaster to study cytokinesis.

Deak, KI, Malamy, JE. “Osmotic Regulation of Root System Architecture.” The Plant Journal 43:17-28.

Fitz Gerald, JN, Lehti-Shiu, MD, Ingram, PA, Deak, KI, Biesiada, TA, Malamy, JE. “Identification of Quantitative Trait Loci that Regulate Arabidopsis Root System Size and Plasticity.” Genetics 172:485-498.

MacGregor, DR, Deak, KI, Ingram, PA, Malamy, JE. “Root System Architecture in Arabidopsis Grown in Culture is Regulated by Sucrose Uptake in the Aerial Tissues.” Plant Cell 20:2643-60.

“Long-distance signals regulate lateral root formation in Arabidopsis plants grown in culture.”  Invited speaker, 2007 Plant Biology and Botany Joint Congress, Chicago.