University of Georgia
My unit’s work addresses dimensions of plant genome biology relevant toward a more bio-based economy, linking increased fundamental knowledge to improved human lives.
Cell Biology of Cilia; Cilia-related diseases, Intracellular Transport.
Population epigenomics and mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance.
Drug Development, Chemical Biology, Cancer Disease Mechanism, Epigenetics and Genetics, Histone Modifications, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Enzymology, and Biophysics.
Growth-defense tradeoff, phenylpropanoid metabolism and carbon allocation,
gene family evolution and functional diversification, alternative splicing and gene duplication.
Biosynthesis and function of the plant cell wall polysaccharide pectin. Anti-cancer effects of pectin.
Fertilization, and early cell-fate decisions in plant embryos.
Phylogenetics, genetics of diversification including speciation; molecular basis of adaptation; evolutionary genomics; evolution of plant reproduction; organismal and molecular coevolution.
Crop genetics, comparative genomics and genome evolution.
Plant centromere and kinetochore structure and function.
