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Ru Zhang, PhD

Assistant Member

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

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Xuehua Zhong, PhD

Professor

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