Participant Labs
*** Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC)-affiliated faculty
Biochemical evolution of plant specialized metabolism
Plant and algal lipid metabolism and transport
Gregory Bonito (*** GLBRC-affiliated)
Fungal systematics; truffle biology; plant-fungal-bacterial interactions
Federica Brandizzi (*** GLBRC-affiliated; does not participate in Plant Genomics REU program)
Mechanisms for establishment and maintenance of organelles of the secretory pathway in growth and stress in plants
Bioinformatics; genomics and genome annotation
Plant morphology; quantification of shape and branching architectures
Polyploid genomics
Plant and algal circadian clock biology
Plant systems biology; trafficking and the function of plant specialized metabolites
Bjoern Hamberger (*** GLBRC-affiliated)
Plant pathway discovery for high-value compounds and synthetic biology
Plant stress responses
Plant growth and development in response to stress
Plant developmental biology and physiology for advancements in tree fruit agriculture
Translational regulation in plant responses to the environment
Peroxisome biogenesis and function
Plant-bacteria interactions, molecular plant pathology, population genomics and evolution, bacterial secretion systems and effector biology
Genetics, genomics, and epigenetics of plant stress responses
Transposable elements (TEs); eukaryotic genome diversification; computational and molecular biology-based approaches
Evolutionary genetics and genomics of plant natural variation
Cheryl Kerfeld (*** GLBRC-affiliated; does not participate in Plant Genomics REU program)
Characterization of proteins involved in photoprotection in cyanobacteria
Alexandra Kravchenko (*** GLBRC-affiliated; does not participate in Plant Genomics REU program)
Micro- to macro-scale biogeochemical processes involved in soil carbon and nitrogen
cycling
Sarah Lebeis (*** GLBRC-affiliated)
Plant microbiome composition and assembly
David Lowry (*** GLBRC-affiliated)
Plant speciation and evolutionary genomics
Plastoglobule and chloroplast biochemistry, proteomics
Weed genomics
Plant genomics and plant resilience
Mycology, plant pathology, fungal ecology, phytobiomes, population genetics/genomics, soil microbes
Mineral nutrition, sensing, signaling and transport
Biochemistry and biophysics of carbon assimilation and exchange with the environment
Shinhan Shiu (*** GLBRC-affiliated)
Evolutionary and comparative genomics; machine learning
Plant stress, mass spectrometry metabolomic and proteomic
Multi-omics resolution of photosynthetic performance
Mechanisms of nitrogen and sulfur uptake and metabolism
Maize genetics and genomics; high-throughput phenotyping
Genetic basis of plant adaptation; drought tolerance of underutilized crop species
Atomic simulation tools; computational microscopy; biological membranes and membrane proteins; nanostructures and assemblies within photosynthetic organisms
Berkley Walker (*** GLBRC-affiliated)
Photosynthesis and photorespiration
