Only faculty affiliated with ILS are listed on this page. Learn more about Plant Biology faculty. The Plant Biology Graduate Coordinator is Shu-Mei Chang (smchang@uga.edu).
Genomics and computational biology of plant – microbiome interactions, RNA post-translation regulatory networks, and genome characterization
Molecular cell biology of the wall, Biofuel and BioEnergy, Golgi as model for System biology, Plant Immunity.
Crop breeding and genetics.
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Genome bioinformatics, ecological and evolutionary genomics of yeast.
Factors that motivate undergraduates to learn science; scientific literacy skill acquisition;
and effective methods to provide instructional feedback.
Computational Plant Science, Phenotyping, Plant Imaging and Simulation.
Plant genome biology with a focus on crops and medicinal plants; Synthetic biology; Evolution of natural product biosynthesis
Evolutionary Ecology of flowering plants; Plant mating system evolution.
Plant population and community ecology; plant-microbe interactions, global change biology; microbial ecology
Plant centromere and kinetochore structure and function.
Plant evolutionary ecology; population dynamics; responses to climate change
Crop genetics, comparative genomics and genome evolution.
Mechanisms of disease and immunity in the rice blast system; Fungal effector proteins; Nutrient uptake in fungi.
Phylogenetics, genetics of diversification including speciation; molecular basis of adaptation;
evolutionary genomics; evolution of plant reproduction; organismal and molecular coevolution.
Human fungal pathogens, sexual reproduction and development in fungal pathogenesis
Fertilization, and early cell-fate decisions in plant embryos.
Biosynthesis and function of the plant cell wall polysaccharide pectin.
Anti-cancer effects of pectin.
Cellular and molecular biology of polar growth in fungi.
Cell differentiation during plant reproduction, genomics and gene regulatory networks, single-cell RNA-sequencing, reprogramming cell fate
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.
Response and vulnerability of forests to natural (e.g. wind, fire) and anthropogenic disturbances (e.g. salvage logging),
and geographic patterns of disturbance severity.
Phylogeny and Signal Evolution in Fireflies (Coleoptera, Lampyridae); Science education research.
Evolutionary biology and population genetics of natural plant populations, specifically evolutionary
factors that shape patterns of genetic variation and mechanisms for partitioning and maintaining species-wide diversity.
Growth-defense tradeoff, phenylpropanoid metabolism and carbon allocation,
gene family evolution and functional diversification, alternative splicing and gene duplication.
The regulation of fruit shape and size of tomato and other Solanaceous crops
