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.