Sweigart, Andrea

Andrea Sweigart
Professor
Genetics
Evolutionary genetics and genomics of natural plant populations.
Evolutionary genetics and genomics of natural plant populations.
Molecular and evolutionary biology of insect parasites; virology, immunology, symbiont evolution, reproduction.
Developmental Regulation of Gene Expression; Evolution of Vertebrate Morphology.
Fertilization, and early cell-fate decisions in plant embryos.
Chromatin structure and function; Epigenetics; Eukaryotic genome stability; Histone H1.
Phylogenetics, genetics of diversification including speciation; molecular basis of adaptation; evolutionary genomics; evolution of plant reproduction; organismal and molecular coevolution.
Developmental neurobiology: molecular genetic mechanisms of vertebrate eye and forebrain development.
Parasite genomics and the biology of genome evolution.
Retrovirus-like transposons in budding yeast, control of transposition, restriction factors.