Regents Professor
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor

Ph.D. (1980) Cornell University
Member, National Academy of Sciences
Associate Editor, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sciences
Editorial Board, Current Opinions in Plant Biology

Phone: 706 542-1870
FAX:   706 542-1805
email:  sue@plantbio.uga.edu          

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Research Interests
Transposable elements in plants with a focus on the characterization of active transposable elements and a determination of how they contribute to genome evolution and adaptation.  To address these questions we use a combination of genetic, biochemical and informatic approaches.

Recent Publications

Grant Support

     NSF Plant Genome Project: Transposable Elements in Rice: A Whole Genome Approach.
               
    NSF Plant Genome Project: GEPR:Maize Transposable Elements: Discovery, Description and Functional Characterization.

    NIH: MITEs and their Transposases

     Howard Hughes Medical Institute: HHMI Professors :The Dynamic Genome: Teaching Evolution to Undergraduates
       
 


Last updated 03/04