University of Georgia
Growth-defense tradeoff, phenylpropanoid metabolism and carbon allocation,
gene family evolution and functional diversification, alternative splicing and gene duplication.
We study CRISPR-Cas immune systems that protect prokaryotes from viruses and provide
powerful research tools for important biotechnology and biomedical applications.
Evolutionary genetics and genomics of natural plant populations.
Molecular and evolutionary biology of insect parasites; virology, immunology, symbiont evolution, reproduction.
Molecular cell biology and biochemistry of proteases associated with isoprenylated protein
maturation and amyloidogenic peptide degradation; cancer; Alzheimer’s disease.
Developmental Regulation of Gene Expression; Evolution of Vertebrate Morphology.
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.
