Genomics
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 |
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 | Adaptation, Domestication, Crop Evolution, Hybridization, Speciation, 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. |