K.L. Adams
Evolution of gene regulation and evolutionary genomics of
polyploids and hybrids.
A. Angert
Plant evolutionary ecology; geographic range limits and rarity; population dynamics and community structure.
G. Bakkeren
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. Emphasis on cereal-infecting
fungal pathogen systems: Structural & Functional Genomic
and Proteomic analyses to discover the molecular basis of
the wheat leaf rust fungus, Puccinia triticina, and the
barley smut, Ustilago hordei, pathogenic and virulence capabilities.
M.L. Berbee
Molecular phylogenetic studies of fungi and evolution of
fungal life history stategies.
J. Bohlmann
Plant molecular biology, genomics and biochemistry. Natural
products and chemical ecology of forest trees.
G.E. Bradfield
Structure and dynamics of tidal marsh and coniferous forest
vegetation, including disturbance responses at the community
and landscape scales.
Q.
Cronk
Projects are available, or may be developed, in the areas
of evolution and development of plants (evo-devo), floral
evolution and tree adaptation.
C.J. Douglas
Plant molecular biology and genetics. Gene regulation, genetic
manipulation of lignin biosynthesis in woody plants, molecular
biology of phenylpropanoid metabolism.
N. M. Fast
Genome evolution, spliceosomal intron evolution, parasitic
adaptation - focusing on microsporidia, a highly derived
group of parasitic fungi.
S. Graham
Systematics and evolution of vascular plants, focusing on
using DNA sequence data to infer relationships at deep and
recent levels of seed plant, angiosperm and monocot phylogenetic
history.
G. Haughn
Plant Developmental Genetics. Molecular genetics of flower
and seed coat development in Arabidopsis thaliana.
R. Jetter
Molecular biology, physiology and chemical ecology of plant
surfaces: biosynthesis of surface compounds; stress adaptation
of plant surfaces; plant-ant interactions; slippery surfaces
on carnivorous plants; composition and function of waxes
on flowers.
P. Keeling
Early eukaryote evolution, molecular phylogeny, protistology.
L. Kunst
Molecular genetic and biochemical studies of seed lipid
and epicuticular wax metabolism and their regulation in
Arabidopsis thaliana.
B. S. Leander
Marine protozoology; evolutionary morphology, molecular
phylogenetics, and biodiversity - particularly euglenozoans,
dinoflagellates, and marine apicomplexans; macroevolution,
electron microscopy; systematics.
J. Lee
Molecular genetics and comparative genomics of green algae; molecular mechanisms of sexual development in green algae; evolutionary origins of plant developmental mechanisms.
X. Li
Plant molecular genetics and genomics, specifically to understand
the natural resistance mechanisms of plants against broad-spectrum
of pathogens including fungi, bacteria, and viruses.
W. Maddison
Phylogenetic theory. Computational biology with applications
to phylogenetics. Systematics and evolution of salticid
spiders.
L. Rieseberg
Speciation, domestication, conservation biology, and weed
evolution.
F. Sack
Molecular genetics and cell biology of stomatal development
including gene expression, division regulation, patterning,
and differentiation.
L. Samuels
Plant cell biology, cellular basis of secretion of plant
cell wall components; lignification in Lodgepole Pine xylem;
epicuticular wax secretion in Arabidopsis.
H. Sanfaçon
Molecular plant virology. Functional studies of viral proteinases,
assembly of viral replication complexes, interaction of
plant viruses with RNA silencing and design of novel antiviral
strategies.
C. Suttle
The biology of viruses that infect marine phytoplankton
and bacteria, and the role of these viruses in population
dynamics and geochemical cycles.
P. Tortell
Biological oceanography; carbon dioxide, and trace metal
controls on marine phytoplankton and
bacteria.
R. Turkington
Experimental field tests of the determinants of community
structure: competition, stress, disturance. Field tests
of ecological theory: top-down and bottom-up control of
vegetation; productivity gradients.
G. Wasteneys
Plant Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics; organization
of the cytoskeleton and its role in cell wall formation,
intracellular motility and growth anisotropy in the higher
plant Arabidopsis thaliana and the characean algae; plant
responses to abiotic and endogenous signals..
J. Whitton
Plant molecular systematic and evolution; the evolution
of asexual polyploid complexes in higher plants.
Y. Zhang
We are interested in how local resistance and systemic acquired resistance are regulated in plants.
