Genomics

Display Name Research Abstract
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.
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.
Shawn Mansfield

Areas of research include:

  • Tree biotechnology
  • Relationship between genes expression and phenotypic cell wall and development traits
  • Plant Metabolism (Metabolomics)
  • Cell Wall Development
  • Cellulose Biosynthesis
  • Lignin Biosynthesis
  • Tree Metabolism
  • Sucrose Metabolism
  • Trees and the Environment; Remediation of anthropogenic contaminants:
    • phosphorous
    • salt
    • heavy metals
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.