University of Georgia
Using plant and microbial synthetic biology to study and design plant form/function, engineer plant microbiomes, and aid biological carbon sequestration.
Plant genome biology with a focus on crops and medicinal plants; Synthetic biology; Evolution of natural product biosynthesis
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
Crop breeding and genetics.
Website coming
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.
