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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.
A. Angert plant evolutionary ecology; geographic range limits and rarity; population dynamics and community structure.
M.L. Berbee Molecular phylogenetic studies of fungi and evolution of fungal life history stategies.
G.E. Bradfield Structure and dynamics of tidal marsh and coniferous forest vegetation, including disturbance responses at the community and landscape scales.
Q. Cronk The study of plant form using the techniques of comparative genomics, molecular developmental biology and evolutionary biology.
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.
P. G. Harrison Ecology of seagrass beds and river-margin vegetation: population dynamics and plant-animal interactions, and reactions to habitat alterations.
P. Keeling Early eukaryote evolution, molecular phylogeny, protistology.
B. S. Leander Marine protozoology & invertebrate zoology; evolutionary morphology & molecular phylogenetics.
J. Lee Molecular genetics and comparative genomics of green algae; molecular mechanisms of sexual development in green algae; evolutionary origins of plant developmental mechanisms.
W. Maddison Spider systematics and evolution.
P. Martone Marine phycology; biomechanics of macroalgae.
L. Rieseberg Speciation, domestication, conservation biology, and weed evolution.
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.
M. Vellend Ecology, biogeography, and evolution - especially of plants. Patterns of biodiversity at multiple levels (species and genetic), and all of the processes that create these patterns, including human-induced landscape alterations.
J. Whitton Plant molecular systematic and evolution; the evolution of asexual polyploid complexes in higher plants.
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