Lewis Jeffrey Feldman (born October 10, 1945) is a professor of plant biology at the University of California, Berkeley, Director of the University of California Botanical Garden and previously Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Natural Resources. He is in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology. Feldman has taught at Berkeley since 1978. He received Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1996. Feldman's research focuses on regulation of development in meristems/stem cells, root gravitropism, and redox regulation of plant development. After graduating in 1963 from Sunset High School in Hayward, California, Feldman attended the University of California, Davis, earning a B.S. in 1967, then an M.S., both in Botany. He received a Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University in 1975. Feldman is a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences. Honors and awards The Jeanette Siron Pelton Award - 1980 CNR Teaching Award - College of Natural Resources - 1992 Distinguished Teaching Award - University of California, Berkeley - 1996 Outstanding Mentorship of Graduate Student Instructors - 1999 Selected research papers Other writings (An abstract for a presentation) Notes References Feldman is quoted extensively in this article. External links Feldman's profile on his department's website Plant & Microbial Biology Department, UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley Online videos Lectures from UC Berkeley's Biology 1B course, Spring 2012. Most of these videos are about 50 minutes long. 21st-century American botanists 1945 births Living people University of California, Berkeley College of Natural Resources faculty People associated with the California Academy of Sciences University of California, Davis alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Scientists from the San Francisco Bay Area 20th-century American scientists