Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Ru Zhang, PhD
Assistant Member
- Email: rzhang33@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Research summary
Understand how photosynthesis and photosynthetic cells respond to high temperatures and what factors limit heat acclimation by using both green algae and land plants as models
Key words
Photosynthesis, heat stress, green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, C4 plant Setaria viridis
Xuehua Zhong, PhD
Professor
- Email: xuehuazhong@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Research summary
Epigenetic regulation of plant traits and environmental adaptation
Key words
Epigenetics, DNA methylation, Histone modification, gene silencing