Genomics

Plant molecular biology, genomics and biochemistry. Natural products and chemical ecology of forest trees.

Fungal biology, genetics, and ecology. Fire-adapted fungi and post-fire ecosystems.

My lab group works on the evolution, phylogenetics and comparative genomics of diverse groups of land plants (embryophytes), with a particular focus on monocots, a flowering-plant clade that includes the major crop plants that sustain human civilization. 

Early eukaryote evolution, molecular phylogeny, protistology.

Areas of research include: Tree biotechnology Relationship between genes expression and phenotypic cell wall and development traits Plant Metabolism (Metabolomics) Cell Wall Development Cellulose Biosynthesis Lignin Biosynthesis Tree Metabolism Sucrose Metabolism Trees and the Environment; Remediation of anthropogenic contaminants: phosphorous salt heavy metals

Microbiome of coastal marine organisms; eukaryotes in the microbiome

Adaptation, Domestication, Crop Evolution, Hybridization, Speciation, Weed Evolution

plant genomics, environmental stresses, seed development, gene expression

The biology of viruses that infect marine phytoplankton and bacteria, and the role of these viruses in population dynamics and geochemical cycles.

Plant molecular systematic and evolution; the evolution of asexual polyploid complexes in higher plants.