Systematics & Phylogenetics
| Display Name | Research Abstract |
|---|---|
| Quentin Cronk | The study of plant form using the techniques of comparative genomics, molecular developmental biology and evolutionary biology. |
| Jonathan Davies | Ecology and evolutionary biology; the distribution of biodiversity and the challenges posed to its conservation through recent changes to the environment. |
| Naomi Fast | Genome evolution, spliceosomal intron evolution, parasitic adaptation - focusing on microsporidia, a highly derived group of parasitic fungi. |
| Sean Graham | My lab group works on the evolution, phylogenetics and comparative genomics of diverse groups of land plants (embryophytes), with a particular focus on monocots, a flowering-plant clade that includes the major crop plants that sustain human civilization. |
| Patrick Keeling | Early eukaryote evolution, molecular phylogeny, protistology. |
| Brian Leander | Marine invertebrate zoology, protozoology, evolutionary morphology & phylogenetics. |
| Wayne Maddison | Spider systematics and evolution. |
| Patrick Martone | Marine phycology; biomechanics of macroalgae. |
| Laura Wegener Parfrey | Microbiome of coastal marine organisms; eukaryotes in the microbiome |
| Loren Rieseberg | Adaptation, Domestication, Crop Evolution, Hybridization, Speciation, Weed Evolution |
| Curtis Suttle | The biology of viruses that infect marine phytoplankton and bacteria, and the role of these viruses in population dynamics and geochemical cycles. |
| Jeannette Whitton | Plant molecular systematic and evolution; the evolution of asexual polyploid complexes in higher plants. |