Plant and Microbial Biosciences

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

Research summary
Synthetic biology for advanced biofuels, biomaterials, and chemicals.

Key words
Synthetic biology, Metabolic engineering, regulatory systems, biomaterials

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

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