Faculty

Thomas Berleth

☀ Accepting Applications
The Arabidopsis embryo represents a simple, reproducible cellular pattern comprised of few basic tissues and prototypes of leaf- and root-like organs. These structures are generated in a suite of highly reproducible stages that imply tight control of orientation and frequency of cell division as well as cell morphology and differentiation. 
_{Campus: St. George (downtown)}

Katharina Braeutigam

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My general research interest lies in the interaction between genome, epigenome, and phenotypic performance in plants with emphasis on persistent effects of past experience and molecular memory systems. 
_Campus: UTM

Adriana Caragea

_{Campus: St. George (downtown)}

Dinesh Christendat

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Structural biology approaches to understand the functional divergence and regulation of metabolic proteins in plants and microbes. 
_{Campus: St. George (downtown)}

John R. Coleman

_{Campus: St. George (downtown)}

Mehran Dastmalchi

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We study the biochemistry of medicinal and crop plants and reassemble the components in engineered microbial hosts to advance our knowledge of biosynthesis, regulation, and transport.  
_{Campus: UTSC}

Darrell Desveaux

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Systems biology of plant-microbe interactions. We investigate how pathogens cause disease and how plants defend themselves. 
_{Campus: St. George (downtown)}

Ingo Ensminger

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We study plant-environment interactions and the impact of climate change on plants from molecular to leaf, species and ecosystem level. 
_Campus: UTM

Sonia Gazzarrini

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My research interests involve understanding the molecular mechanisms that regulate the transition from dormancy to germination and the role that hormones and abiotic stresses play in this processes. 
_{Campus: UTSC}

Eliana Gonzales-Vigil

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How, when and why do plants synthesize metabolites that cure our illnesses and flavour our foods? The lab is figuring out the answers to questions related to plant specialized metabolism. 
_{Campus: UTSC}

Daphne Goring

My overall research interests are to understand how plant cells communicate through signal transduction pathways to regulate plant reproduction in the Brassicaceae family (Arabidopsis and related species). 
_{Campus: St. George (downtown)}

David S. Guttman

☀ Accepting Applications
Comparative, evolutionary and functional genomics. Evolution of host specificity and virulence in pathogenic bacteria. Microbiome studies of human and plant diseases. 
_{Campus: St. George (downtown)}

Michele Heath

_{Campus: St. George (downtown)}

Verna Higgins

_{Campus: St. George (downtown)}

Shelley Lumba

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Our goal is to elucidate molecular mechanisms underlying dormancy and germination in both non-parasitic and parasitic plants. We apply systems biology approaches to generate signalling networks during seed germination.  
_{Campus: St. George (downtown)}

Peter McCourt

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The laboratory is focused on how hormones regulate developmental responses in higher plants. In particular, we use functional and chemical genomics approaches to dissect abscisic acid (ABA) and strigolactone signaling. 
_{Campus: St. George (downtown)}

Heather McFarlane

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We ask and answer questions about the fundamental mechanisms by which plants sense their environment through the cell wall and how plants adjust their growth in response to these signals. 
_{Campus: St. George (downtown)}

Adam Mott

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We combine wet lab and computational approaches to study how plants use cell surface receptors to sense their environment, integrate this information, and regulate growth and immunity. 
_{Campus: UTSC}

Eiji Nambara

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My research team investigates molecular mechanisms by which plants regulate plant hormone metabolism. 
_{Campus: St. George (downtown)}

Rob W. Ness

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The Ness lab investigates how mutation and recombination interact with selection and genetic drift to drive evolution. We combine natural and experimental populations with new fangled genomic technologies. 
_Campus: UTM

Michael A. Phillips

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Regulation and control of plant terpenoid biosynthesis. We use mass spectrometry, isotopic labeling, and synthetic biology to study terpenoid metabolism in Arabidopsis and medically important plant species. 
_Campus: UTM

Colette L. Picard

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We study the molecular mechanisms underlying cell fate decisions during development, using pollen as a model system. Our approach combines molecular biology, single-nucleus sequencing, and bioinformatics.  
_{Campus: St. George (downtown)}

Nicholas J. Provart

Bioinformatic tools and analyses for hypothesis generation in plant biology. Wet-lab validation of hypotheses generated using such tools 
_{Campus: St. George (downtown)}

Satyaki Rajavasireddy

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We study the genetics and epigenetics of seed development.  
_{Campus: UTSC}

Gopal Subramaniam

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My Laboratory studies regulation of secondary metabolism and virulence in the phytopathogen Fusarium graminearum. 
_{Campus: St. George (downtown)}

Keiko Yoshioka

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Signal transduction of stress responses in plants with an emphasis on immunity; environmental effects on pathogen resistance; signal transduction networks in abiotic and biotic stress responses; production of stress resistant plants. 
_{Campus: St. George (downtown)}

Rongmin Zhao

☀ Accepting Applications
The mechanism of action of molecular chaperones and their roles in plant development, and in organelle functions; the mechanism of regulated protein degradation by the 26S proteasome. 
_{Campus: UTSC}