Faculty Members in Genomics
| Name | Research abstract |
|---|---|
| Keith Adams |
Molecular and genomic evolution, genome duplication (polyploidy), duplicate gene evolution, evolution of gene regulation |
| 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. |
| 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.
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| Patrick Keeling |
Early eukaryote evolution, molecular phylogeny, protistology. |
| Jae-Hyeok Lee |
Molecular genetics of sexual development in green algae, focusing on gene regulatory networks and cell wall assembly; Phylogenomics study of developmental mechanisms for the evolution of land plants from their green algal ancestors; Genetic engineering of algae for efficient carbon capture and biofuel production. |
| Laura Wegener Parfrey |
Microbiome of coastal marine organisms; eukaryotes in the microbiome |
| Loren Rieseberg |
Speciation, domestication, conservation biology, and 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. |
| Jeannette Whitton |
Plant molecular systematic and evolution; the evolution of asexual polyploid complexes in higher plants. |