Faculty Members in Genomics

Faculty of ScienceDepartment of Botany

Name	Research abstract
Keith Adams	Genome evolution, polyploidy, duplicate gene fates and evolution, evolution of gene regulation, alternative splicing, non-coding RNAs
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.
Patrick Keeling	Early eukaryote evolution, molecular phylogeny, protistology.
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.
Laura Wegener Parfrey	Microbiome of coastal marine organisms; eukaryotes in the microbiome
Loren Rieseberg	Speciation, domestication, conservation biology, and weed evolution.
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.
Jeannette Whitton	Plant molecular systematic and evolution; the evolution of asexual polyploid complexes in higher plants.