Participant Labs
*** Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC)-affiliated faculty
Biochemical evolution of plant specialized metabolism |
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Plant and algal lipid metabolism and transport |
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Gregory Bonito (*** GLBRC-affiliated) Fungal systematics; truffle biology; plant-fungal-bacterial interactions |
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Federica Brandizzi (*** GLBRC-affiliated) Mechanisms for establishment and maintenance of organelles of the secretory pathway in growth and stress in plants |
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Bioinformatics; genomics and genome annotation |
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Plant morphology; quantification of shape and branching architectures |
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Cyanobacterial biology and biotechnology |
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Polyploid genomics |
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Plant and algal circadian clock biology |
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Plant systems biology; trafficking and the function of plant specialized metabolites |
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Bjoern Hamberger (*** GLBRC-affiliated) Plant pathway discovery for high-value compounds and synthetic biology |
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Plant stress responses |
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Plant growth and development in response to stress |
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Translational regulation in plant responses to the environment |
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Plant developmental biology and physiology for advancements in tree fruit agriculture |
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Regulation of plant anti-herbivore defense |
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Peroxisome biogenesis and function |
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Plant-bacteria interactions, molecular plant pathology, population genomics and evolution, bacterial secretion systems and effector biology |
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Genetics, genomics, and epigenetics of plant stress responses |
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Evolutionary genetics and genomics of plant natural variation |
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Cheryl Kerfeld (*** GLBRC-affiliated) Characterization of proteins involved in photoprotection in cyanobacteria |
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Robert Last (*** GLBRC-affiliated) Functional genomics of plant metabolism |
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Sarah Lebeis (*** GLBRC-affiliated) Plant microbiome composition and assembly |
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David Lowry (*** GLBRC-affiliated) Plant speciation and evolutionary genomics |
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Plastoglobule and chloroplast biochemistry, proteomics |
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Small fruit and hop pathology |
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Plant and pathogen population genetics, genetic mapping for quality, disease, and insect resistance, breeding, molecular marker systems, abiotic/biotic stress |
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Weed genomics |
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Plant genomics and plant resilience |
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Mycology, plant pathology, fungal ecology, phytobiomes, population genetics/genomics, soil microbes |
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Mineral nutrition, sensing, signaling and transport |
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Metabolic flux analysis of plant central metabolism |
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Biochemistry and biophysics of carbon assimilation and exchange with the environment |
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Shinhan Shiu (*** GLBRC-affiliated) Evolutionary and comparative genomics; machine learning |
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Plant stress, mass spectrometry metabolomic and proteomic |
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Multi-omics resolution of photosynthetic performance |
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Mechanisms of nitrogen and sulfur uptake and metabolism |
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Maize genetics and genomics; high-throughput phenotyping |
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Fungal pathogen-host interactions |
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Genetic basis of plant adaptation; drought tolerance of underutilized crop species |
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Berkley Walker (*** GLBRC-affiliated) Photosynthesis and photorespiration |