Biodiversity
Display Name | Research Abstract |
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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. |
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. |
Sean 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. |
Patrick Keeling | Early eukaryote evolution, molecular phylogeny, protistology. |
Brian Leander | Marine invertebrate zoology, protozoology, evolutionary morphology & phylogenetics. |
Wayne Maddison | Spider systematics and evolution. |
Sean Michaletz | Ecophysiology, ecosystem ecology, macroecology, scaling, fire behaviour and effects. |
Laura Wegener Parfrey | Microbiome of coastal marine organisms; eukaryotes in the microbiome |
Loren Rieseberg | Adaptation, Domestication, Crop Evolution, Hybridization, Speciation, Weed Evolution |
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 | NEW: *We have funding for 1 MSc student to study the relationship between tree traits, microbes, and insect diversity. Please email me for more information. Aquatic and Insect Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Jeannette Whitton | Plant molecular systematic and evolution; the evolution of asexual polyploid complexes in higher plants. |