All Research
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Keith Adams | Genome evolution, polyploidy, duplicate gene fates and evolution, evolution of gene regulation, transcriptomics, alternative splicing, non-coding RNAs |
Amy Angert | Plant evolutionary ecology; geographic range limits and rarity; population dynamics and community structure. |
Mary Berbee | Molecular phylogenetic studies of fungi and evolution of fungal life history stategies. |
Jörg Bohlmann | Plant molecular biology, genomics and biochemistry. Natural products and chemical ecology of forest trees. |
Quentin Cronk | The study of plant form using the techniques of comparative genomics, molecular developmental biology and evolutionary biology. |
Jonathan Davies | Ecology and evolutionary biology; the distribution of biodiversity and the challenges posed to its conservation through recent changes to the environment. |
Naomi Fast | Genome evolution, spliceosomal intron evolution, parasitic adaptation - focusing on microsporidia, a highly derived group of parasitic fungi. |
Kaitlyn Gaynor | My research examines the effects of human activity on global biodiversity, with emphases on (1) the behavioral responses of animals to human presence, (2) the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on predator-prey and other species interactions, and (3) the socio-ecological dynamics of conservation and coexistence. This work involves large-scale data synthesis and meta-analyses, and local field studies in North America and Africa. |
Sean Graham | 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. |
Reinhard Jetter | |
Patrick Keeling | Early eukaryote evolution, molecular phylogeny, protistology. |
Brian Leander | Marine invertebrate zoology, protozoology, evolutionary morphology & phylogenetics. |
Xin Li | Utilizing a combination of molecular genetics, biochemical and genomics approaches to understand plant immunity and biological processes of the soilborne fungal pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum |
Wayne Maddison | Spider systematics and evolution. |
Shawn Mansfield | Areas of research include:
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Patrick Martone | Marine phycology; biomechanics of macroalgae. |
Sean Michaletz | Ecophysiology, ecosystem ecology, macroecology, scaling, fire behaviour and effects. |
Alex Moore | My research focuses on how predator-prey interactions impact the health and functioning of coastal wetland ecosystems and explores the role that cultural values and knowledge play in ecosystem restoration conservation. |
Laura Wegener Parfrey | Microbiome of coastal marine organisms; eukaryotes in the microbiome |
Loren Rieseberg | Adaptation, Domestication, Crop Evolution, Hybridization, Speciation, Weed Evolution |
Abel Rosado | Characterization of ER-PM contact site components involved in plant stress tolerance |
Lacey Samuels | Plant cell biology, cellular basis of secretion of plant cell wall components; lignification in xylem development; ABC transporters and cuticle secretion |
Liang Song | plant genomics, environmental stresses, seed development, gene expression |
Curtis Suttle | The biology of viruses that infect marine phytoplankton and bacteria, and the role of these viruses in population dynamics and geochemical cycles. |
Marco Todesco | Understanding the genetic basis of plant diversity and adaptation. |
Philippe Tortell | |
Michelle Tseng | Aquatic and Insect Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Geoffrey 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. |
Jeannette Whitton | Plant molecular systematic and evolution; the evolution of asexual polyploid complexes in higher plants. |
Yuelin Zhang | We are interested in how local resistance and systemic acquired resistance are regulated in plants. |