Doris Wagner, Professor of Biology, has been named DiMaura Professor of Biology. Wagner is the inaugural director for the Penn Plant Adaptability and Resilience Center, which is a new initiative for plant-based sustainable solutions to address climate change. A leader in the fields of plant biology, chromatin modification, and epigenetics, she investigates reprogramming of cell identity and function during developmental transitions and in response to environmental inputs in plants. She is the recipient of numerous grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health, including serving as the lead PI on the NSF Research Collaborative Network Initiative EPIC: Epigenomics of Plants, International Consortium. She is editor-in-chief of Current Opinions in Plant Biology.