Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Program affiliation
Computational and Systems Biology
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Research summary
A computational and experimental lab studying bacterial colonization and transmission at the boundary of built and natural environments and exploring microbiomes as environmental sensors and public health sentinels

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Program affiliation
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Research summary
How the environment shapes host-associated microbial communities both within and across species

Key words
Gut microbiome, nonhuman primates, environmental health

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Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Computational and Systems Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
The Mansfeld Lab uses various non‑model species and a hypothesis driven, systems approach to examine how circadian rhythm, development, and tissue type impact plant defense.

Key words
Plant Pathology, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Disease Resistance

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Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
The function, biogenesis & evolution of small RNAs in plants

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Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Circadian clock regulation of physiology and development in plants.

Key words
Plant Biology, circadian rhythms, biochemistry, genetics, Arabidopsis, mass spectrometry, chronobiology

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Research summary
Plant evolutionary biology, molecular population genetics, genetics of adaptation, phylogeography

Key words
evolution, genetics, plant biology, population genetics, molecular evolution

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Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Research summary
Mechanisms of reproductive cell regeneration and development

Key words
germline, reproduction, stem cells, regeneration, imaging, scRNAseq

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Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Systems and Synthetic Biology of photosynthetic organisms

Key words
Bioenergy, membrane proteins, photosynthesis, redox processes, systems biology, synthetic biology

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Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Research summary
To understand how plants perceive and respond to abiotic stress

Key words
heterotrimeric G-proteins, abscisic acid, G-proteins, molecular genetics, biochemistry, genomics, proteomics, protein-protein interactions

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Research summary
Biophysics of intrinsically disordered proteins

Key words
Huntington`s disease; Polyglutamine Aggregation; Intrinsically Disordered Proteins; Phase transitions in cell biology; Self-assembly; Transcriptional regulation; Small-scale Systems Biology & Interaction Networks;