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K. Adams Molecular and genomic evolution, genome duplication (polyploidy), gene silencing and epigenetics, evolution of gene regulation, evolution of mitochondria and chloroplasts.
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.
J. Bohlmann Plant molecular biology, genomics and biochemistry. Natural products and chemical ecology of forest trees.
C. J. Douglas Plant molecular biology and genetics. Gene regulation, genetic manipulation of lignin biosynthesis in woody plants, molecular biology of phenylpropanoid metabolism.
A. Glass Physiology, biochemistry, and molecular genetics of inorganic ion transport across membranes of plant roots. Physiological aspects of hydroponic growth.
B. Green Genomics, molecular evolution and chloroplast protein import in algae with chlorophyll c (diatoms, dinoflagellates and other chromists). Evolution of genes for light-harvesting antenna proteins and their stress-induced relatives. Photoacclimation in diatoms. Replication and transcription of minicircular chloroplast genes in dinoflagellates.
G. Haughn Plant Developmental Genetics. Molecular genetics of flower and seed coat development in Arabidopsis thaliana.
R. Jetter Plant biochemistry, physiology and chemical ecology; molecular biology and enzymology of wax metabolism; chemical composition, physiological function and ecological roles of plant surface lipids.
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.
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.
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.
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..
Y. Zhang

We are interested in how local resistance and systemic acquired resistance are regulated in plants.

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