Brande Wulff is a Molecular Plant Pathologist and Geneticist. He recently took up a faculty position in the Center for Desert Agriculture where he established The Wulff Lab. Prior to joining KAUST, he was Group Leader at the John Innes Centre (UK) and Research Manager at The Sainsbury Laboratory (UK). Wulff received his PhD from The Sainsbury Laboratory in 2002 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the IBMCP Institute for Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology (Spain) and IBMP Institute of Molecular Biology of Plants (France) with fellowships from the European Molecular Biology Organization and the Human Frontier Science Program.