Participant Labs

Biochemical evolution of plant specialized metabolism

Plant and algal lipid metabolism and transport

Fungal systematics; truffle biology; plant-fungal-bacterial interactions

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

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

Characterization of proteins involved in photoprotection in cyanobacteria

Alexandra Kravchenko
Micro- to macro-scale biogeochemical processes involved in soil carbon and nitrogen
cycling

Plant microbiome composition and assembly

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

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

Photosynthesis and photorespiration

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