Evolution
| Name | Research Abstract |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Jae-Hyeok Lee | Life cycle transitions of sexual eukaryote; Molecular mechanisms of nutrient sensing in phototrophic eukaryotes; Ubiquitin-dependent mechansism for chloroplast quality control; Evolution of developmental/epigenetic mechanisms; Macroevolutionary transitions from prokaryotes to eukaryotes and from green algae to land plants; Mitigating climate change by engineering algae for efficient carbon capture and biofuel production. |
| Loren Rieseberg | Adaptation, Domestication, Crop Evolution, Hybridization, Speciation, Weed Evolution |
| Michelle Tseng | Aquatic and Insect Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| Jeannette Whitton | Plant molecular systematic and evolution; the evolution of asexual polyploid complexes in higher plants. |