Name |
Department |
Ecological Genomics Research Projects |
Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics of Adaptation
|
Eduard Akhunov |
Plant Pathology |
Adaptive plasticity and drought tolerance in polyploidy wheat |
Ecotypic differentiation, genetic variation in the prairie grass Andropogon |
Loretta Johnson |
Biology |
Ecotypic differentiation, genetic variation in the prairie grass Andropogon |
Ted Morgan |
Biology |
Drosophila quantitative genomics and thermal tolerance, statistical analyses |
Ecotypic differentiation, genetic variation in the prairie grass Andropogon |
Paul St. Amand |
Plant Pathology |
Ecotypic differentiation, genetic variation in the prairie grass Andropogon |
Chris Toomajian |
Plant Pathology |
Adaptation and natural genetic variation on a genomic scale in A.thaliana |
Mark Ungerer |
Biology |
Clinal variation in freezing tolerance in A. thaliana |
Hybrid speciation, transposons and genome evolution in wild sunflowers |
Ruth Welti |
Biology |
Plant adaptation to elevated carbon dioxide: Using a lipidomic approach to identify alterations in lipid metabolism and signaling in A. thaliana |
Speciation/Hybridization and Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics
|
Sue Brown |
Biology |
Evolution of gene networks regulating insect development |
Computational methods to characterize regulatory networks involved in plant response to abiotic stresses |
Carolyn Ferguson |
Biology |
Evolutionary genetics, speciation and hybridization in Phlox |
Srini Kambhampati |
Entomology |
Sociogenomics and genetics of eusociality in termites |
Jeremy Marshall |
Entomology |
Genomics/proteomics of reproductive isolation and speciation in crickets |
Genomics and Ecological Species Interactions
|
Plant-microbial |
Karen Garrett |
Plant Pathology |
Plant-microbe ecological genomics and higher order interactions |
Ecotypic differentiation, genetic variation in the prairie grass Andropogon |
Soil Metagenomics to Construct Indicators of Soil Degradation |
Ari Jumpponen |
Biology |
Identification of the function of mutualistic root endophytic fungi using the Arabidopsis transcriptome |
Soil Metagenomics to Construct Indicators of Soil Degradation |
Frank White |
Plant Pathology |
Genes involved in pathogen adaptation to new plant genotypes |
Trophic Interactions |
|
David Margolies |
Entomology |
Linking foraging genes with population effects in predator-prey dynamics |
Antagonistic cross-talk between defensive signaling pathways in tomato plants in response to a virus and an arthropod herbivore |
James Nechols |
Entomology |
Antagonistic cross-talk between defensive signaling pathways in tomato plants in response to a virus and an arthropod herbivore |
Dorith Rotenberg |
Plant Pathology |
Antagonistic cross-talk between defensive signaling pathways in tomato plants in response to a virus and an arthropod herbivore |
Mike Smith |
Entomology |
Constitutive and induced genes involved in cereal resistance to aphids |
Anna Whitfield |
Plant Pathology |
Genomics of plant virus-vector specificity and transmission |
Antagonistic cross-talk between defensive signaling pathways in tomato plants in response to a virus and an arthropod herbivore |
Community/metagenomics |
Michael Herman |
Biology |
Nematode community ecological genomics and environmental change |
Soil Metagenomics to Construct Indicators of Soil Degradation |
Tim Todd |
Plant Pathology |
Nematode community ecological genomics and environmental change |
D. Population and Conservation genomics
|
Brett Sandercock |
Biology |
Avian population demography, mating systems and genetics |
Samantha Wisely |
Biology |
Population genomics responses to land use and land cover changes |
Contrasting ecological genomics of disease transmission in evolutionarily independent strains of rabies |
Kun Yan Zhu |
Entomology |
Insect toxicogenomics. stress response to hypoxia in aquatic organisms |
E. Ecological Systems Biology, Statistics, and Bioinformatics
|
Doina Caragea |
Computer Sciences |
Bioinformatics, data mining, information integration and visualization |
Computational methods to characterize regulatory networks involved in plant response to abiotic stresses |
Gary Gadbury |
Statistics |
Statistical analysis of high dimensional data, multiple testing issues |
James Higgins |
Statistics |
Statistical analysis of microarrays, non-parametirc designs |
Haiyan Wang |
Statistics |
Statistical analysis of microarrays, differential gene expression |
Computational methods to characterize regulatory networks involved in plant response to abiotic stresses |
Stephen Welch |
Agronomy |
Network models and natural variation in plant flowering time |
We strive to foster a fertile intellectual community of diverse participants from varied disciplines who are committed to advancing the field of ecological genomics. 
