
Tessa Andrews
Associate Professor
Genetics
Undergraduate evolution education; instructor experiences, knowledge,
and skills in teaching biology; teaching context and climate in life science departments.
Learn more about this group by contacting Dr. Paula Lemons (plemons@uga.edu) or visiting the SEER Center website.
Undergraduate evolution education; instructor experiences, knowledge,
and skills in teaching biology; teaching context and climate in life science departments.
Assessment in large classes; undergraduates as a resource to improve teaching and learning;
promoting active learning in large lectures.
Factors that motivate undergraduates to learn science; scientific literacy skill acquisition;
and effective methods to provide instructional feedback.
Evolutionary Ecology of flowering plants; Plant mating system evolution.
My research is focused on the use of metacognition to enhance student learning in biology.
Course-based undergraduate research, student integration into the
scientific community; research mentoring of undergraduate researchers.
Plant evolutionary ecophysiology, adaptations to stress.
Molecular and cellular basis of pattern formation in vertebrates; developmental genetics of zebrafish.
Protist systematics, cell evolution, and flagellar development.
Role of microbial diversity in marine environments and the utilization of molecular methods
to investigate microbial diversity, interactions between micro- and macroscopic organisms and
the functioning of marine ecosystems.
Retrovirus-like transposons in budding yeast, control of transposition, restriction factors.
Evolutionary systems biology; protein kinase signaling in plants, pathogens and microbes.
Phylogenetics, genetics of diversification including speciation; molecular basis of adaptation;
evolutionary genomics; evolution of plant reproduction; organismal and molecular coevolution.
My research investigates problem solving among biochemistry undergraduates and the process
college science instructors go through as they innovate their teaching.
Understanding intracellular and intercellular heme transport.
Cellular and molecular biology of polar growth in fungi.
Molecular and cellular biology of the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.
Biomedical imaging and large graph mining in public health applications.
Molecular cell biology and biochemistry of proteases associated with isoprenylated protein
maturation and amyloidogenic peptide degradation; cancer; Alzheimer’s disease.
Signal evolution in fireflies (Lampyridae); research in undergraduate education in the sciences.
Evolutionary genetics and genomics of natural plant populations.
Role of protein glycosylation in intellectual disability, congenital muscular dystrophy, cancer, and viral infection.
X-ray crystallographic and biochemical studies of nucleotide sugar metabolism.