Plant Biology
Research includes:
- Biofuels
- Cell Biology and Morphogenesis
- Cell Metabolism
- Cell Signaling
- Cytoskeleton
- Development
- Genetics
- Genomics
- Plant Biology
- Plant Biotechnology
- Plant Interaction with the Environment
- Plant Interaction with the Pathogens
Training Group Mission:
The Plant Biology graduate program provides an opportunity for students to study a diverse array of aspects of plant sciences, including growth and development, cell biology, reproduction, physiology, metabolism, and gene expression. Students are provided with a broad-based curriculum that focuses on the study of basic plant sciences. Students conduct research employing multidisciplinary approaches to examine the biology of plants including molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, genomics, and bioinformatics. The research of the Plant Biology group emphasizes basic plant sciences; however, many students are involved in projects that evaluate the biotechnological opportunities that stem from their research.
Faculty Membership
Plant host-viral interactions; identification, characterization of molecular markers for resistance genes; cellular and functional genomics
Plant-insect chemical ecology, biochemical spectroscopy, ecosystem ecology.
Plant-Biotic interactions. Community ecology. Evolutionary Game theory.
Ecological and evolutionary genetics: adaptation and adaptive traits (especially freezing tolerance and flowering time); heterosis; plant mating system evolution.
- Training Groups
- Prospective Faculty
- Biomolecular Structure and Biophysics
- Biotechnology
- Chromatin and Regulation of Gene Expression
- Chemical Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Immunology and Infectious Diseases
- Integrative Neuroscience
- Microbiology
- Membrane Biology
- Molecular Signaling and Cancer Biology
- Plant Biology
