Participant Labs

*** Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC)-affiliated faculty

	Cornelius Barry Biochemical evolution of plant specialized metabolism
	Christoph Benning 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
	Kevin Childs Bioinformatics; genomics and genome annotation
	D an Chitwood Plant morphology; quantification of shape and branching architectures
	Patrick Edger Polyploid genomics
	Eva Farre Plant and algal circadian clock biology
	Erich Grotewold 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
	Miranda Haus Plant stress responses
	Susanne Hoffmann-Benning Plant growth and development in response to stress
	Courtney Hollender Plant developmental biology and physiology for advancements in tree fruit agriculture
	Polly Hsu Translational regulation in plant responses to the environment
	Jianping Hu Peroxisome biogenesis and function
	Michelle Hulin Plant-bacteria interactions, molecular plant pathology, population genomics and evolution, bacterial secretion systems and effector biology
	Jiming Jiang Genetics, genomics, and epigenetics of plant stress responses
	Ning Jiang Transposable elements (TEs); eukaryotic genome diversification; computational and molecular biology-based approaches
	Emily Josephs 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
	Peter Lundquist Plastoglobule and chloroplast biochemistry, proteomics
	Eric Patterson Weed genomics
	Sue Rhee Plant genomics and plant resilience
	J. Alejandro Rojas-Flechas Mycology, plant pathology, fungal ecology, phytobiomes, population genetics/genomics, soil microbes
	Hatem Rouached Mineral nutrition, sensing, signaling and transport
	Tom Sharkey Biochemistry and biophysics of carbon assimilation and exchange with the environment
	Shinhan Shiu (*** GLBRC-affiliated) Evolutionary and comparative genomics; machine learning
	Aleksandra Skirycz Plant stress, mass spectrometry metabolomic and proteomic
	Daniela Strenkert Multi-omics resolution of photosynthetic performance
	Hideki Takahashi Mechanisms of nitrogen and sulfur uptake and metabolism
	Addie Thompson Maize genetics and genomics; high-throughput phenotyping
	Robert vanBuren Genetic basis of plant adaptation; drought tolerance of underutilized crop species
	Josh Vermaas Atomic simulation tools; computational microscopy; biological membranes and membrane proteins; nanostructures and assemblies within photosynthetic organisms
	Berkley Walker (*** GLBRC-affiliated) Photosynthesis and photorespiration

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