All Research
| 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. |
| Craig Berezowsky | Scholarship of teaching & learning. |
| Jörg Bohlmann | Plant molecular biology, genomics and biochemistry. Natural products and chemical ecology of forest trees. |
| Greg Bole | Scholarship of teaching & learning. |
| Liane Chen | Scholarship of teaching & learning. |
| Sunita Chowrira | Scholarship of teaching & learning. |
| Bridgette Clarkston | Scholarship of teaching & learning. |
| Brett Couch | Scholarship of teaching & learning. |
| Quentin Cronk | The study of plant form using the techniques of comparative genomics, molecular developmental biology and evolutionary biology. |
| Jonathan Davies | Ecology and evolutionary biology; the distribution of biodiversity and the challenges posed to its conservation through recent changes to the environment. |
| Caitlin Donnelly | Scholarship of teaching & learning. |
| Shona Ellis | Scholarship of teaching & learning. |
| 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. |
| George Haughn | Plant Developmental Genetics. Molecular genetics of seed coat development in Arabidopsis thaliana. |
| Reinhard Jetter | Plant biochemistry, physiology and chemical ecology; molecular biology and enzymology of wax metabolism; chemical composition, physiological function and ecological roles of plant surface lipids. |
| Pam Kalas | Scholarship of teaching & learning. |
| Patrick Keeling | Early eukaryote evolution, molecular phylogeny, protistology. |
| Jennifer Klenz | Scholarship of teaching & learning. |
| Ljerka Kunst | Molecular genetic and biochemical studies of seed lipid and epicuticular wax metabolism and their regulation in Arabidopsis thaliana. |
| Vivienne Lam | Scholarship of teaching & learning. |
| Brian Leander | Marine invertebrate zoology, protozoology, evolutionary morphology & phylogenetics. |
| Celeste Leander | Scholarship of teaching & learning. |
| 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. |
| Xin Li | Utilizing a combination of molecular genetics, biochemical and genomics approaches to understand the natural resistance mechanisms of plants against microbial pathogens including fungi, bacteria, and viruses. |
| Wayne Maddison | Spider systematics and evolution. |
| Patrick Martone | Marine phycology; biomechanics of macroalgae. |
| Sean Michaletz | Plant physiological ecology, macroecology, fire behavior and effects |
| Maryam Moussavi | Scholarship of teaching & learning. |
| Laura Wegener Parfrey | Microbiome of coastal marine organisms; eukaryotes in the microbiome |
| Loren Rieseberg | Adaptation, Domestication, Crop Evolution, Hybridization, Speciation, Weed Evolution |
| Abel Rosado | Characterization of ER-PM contact site components involved in plant stress tolerance |
| Lacey Samuels | Plant cell biology, cellular basis of secretion of plant cell wall components; lignification in xylem development; ABC transporters and cuticle secretion |
| Santokh Singh | Scholarship of teaching & learning. |
| 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. |
| Philippe Tortell | Biological oceanography; carbon dioxide, and trace metal controls on marine phytoplankton and bacteria. |
| Michelle Tseng | Aquatic and Insect Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| Geoffrey Wasteneys | Plant Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics; organization of the cytoskeleton and its role in cell wall formation, intracellular motility and growth anisotropy in the higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana and the characean algae; plant responses to abiotic and endogenous signals. |
| Jeannette Whitton | Plant molecular systematic and evolution; the evolution of asexual polyploid complexes in higher plants. |
| Rachel Wilson | Scholarship of teaching & learning. |
| Kathryn Zeiler | Scholarship of teaching & learning. |
| Yuelin Zhang | We are interested in how local resistance and systemic acquired resistance are regulated in plants. |