University of Georgia
Using plant and microbial synthetic biology to study and design plant form/function, engineer plant microbiomes, and aid biological carbon sequestration.
Biosynthesis and regulation of plant cell wall synthesis and deposition, post-translational modifications, glycan imaging and dynamics.
Genomics and computational biology of plant – microbiome interactions, RNA post-translation regulatory networks, and genome characterization
Cell differentiation during plant reproduction, genomics and gene regulatory networks, single-cell RNA-sequencing, reprogramming cell fate
Plant evolutionary ecology; population dynamics; responses to climate change
The regulation of fruit shape and size of tomato and other Solanaceous crops
Human fungal pathogens, sexual reproduction and development in fungal pathogenesis
Genome bioinformatics, ecological and evolutionary genomics of yeast.
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.
