
UGA's Plant Biology Department is a multidisciplinary program with 25 full-time faculty working on a wide range of research problems in the plant sciences. Work is currently being done on a variety of problems ranging from genetic regulatory mechanisms to plant speciation and community disturbance ecology.
Equal to the breadth of research problems addressed is the range of organisms studied. Algae, mosses, fungi and flowering plants are studied from genes to genus by molecular biology, physiology, systematics and ecology faculty. Collaborations are currently underway among anatomists, cell biologists, molecular geneticists and plant taxonomists to bring a multifaceted approach to our understanding of basic plant physiology and genetics.
Visit the Research Areas pages (see links at right) to learn more about the breadth of our interests, then visit a faculty member's individual homepage to learn about his or her specific focal areas.
Plant Biology Faculty
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Maor Bar-Peled
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 1993 |
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BioFuel production; Plant Cell Biology and Development |
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Bill Barstow
Purdue, 1973 |
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Ultrastructure of fungal development |
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Peggy Brickman
UC-Berkeley, 1993 |
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Biology Education |
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John Burke
Georgia, 1999 |
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Plant evolutionary genetics |
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Shu-Mei Chang
Duke University, 1997 |
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Plant evolutionary biology |
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Kelly Dawe
California, Berkeley, 1989 |
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Plant cell and molecular biology |
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Katrien Devos
University of Ghent, Belgium, 1992 |
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Grass Comparative Genomics |
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Lisa Donovan
Utah, 1992 |
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Plant physiological ecology |
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Glenn Galau
Cal Tech, 1976 |
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Plant molecular biology |
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Michael Hahn
Colorado, 1981 |
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Carbohydrates in growth and development |
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Jim Hamrick
California, Berkeley, 1970 |
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Population genetics |
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Steve Hubbell
California, Berkeley, 1969 |
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Community ecology; biodiversity |
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Jim Leebens-Mack
Texas, 1995 |
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Plant systematics and evolutionary biology |
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Wolfgang Lukowitz
University of Tübingen, 1996 |
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Developmental biology, Genetics |
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Russell Malmberg
Wisconsin, 1976 |
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Genetics, evolution, bioinformatics
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Michelle Momany Department Head Texas, Austin, 1992
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Fungal cell and molecular biology |
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Andy Paterson
Cornell, 1988 |
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Plant genetics |
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Chris Peterson
Rutgers, 1992 |
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Plant community ecology |
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Gregory Schmidt
SUNY, Stony Brook, 1975 |
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Coral Bleaching: Genotypic and Photosynthetic Diversity in Symbiotic Algae |
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Rebecca Sharitz
North Carolina, 1970 |
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Savannah River Ecology Laboratory; plant population ecology |
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Kathrin Stanger-Hall
Tuebingen (Germany), 1993 |
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Biology education and animal communication |
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Sue Wessler
Cornell, 1980 |
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Plant molecular biology |
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Zheng-Hua Ye
Washington University, 1994 |
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Plant cell and molecular genetics |
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Xiaoyu Zhang
Georgia, 2003 |
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Molecular biology, epigenetics and genomics |
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Wendy Zomlefer
Florida, 1991 |
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Plant systematics |
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| Adjunct and Courtesy Faculty Appointments |
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Mike Arnold
Australian National University, 1985 |
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Genetics Department; evolution and genetics |
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Jeff Bennetzen
University of Washington, 1980 |
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Genetics Department; genome structure, function, and evolution |
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Sarah Covert
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990 |
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Warnell School of Forest Resources; Molecular genetics of fungal-plant interactions |
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Alan Darvill
University College of Wales, 1976 |
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CCRC; biochemistry and botany |
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Mark Farmer
Rutgers, 1988 |
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Cellular Biology Department; ultrastructure and evolution of protists and algae |
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Steve Knapp
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1983 |
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Crop and Soil Sciences; plant breeding & genomics |
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Rodney Mauricio
Duke, 1995 |
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Department of Genetics; ecological genetics |
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Deb Mohnen
University of Illinois, 1985 |
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CCRC; Pectin Biosynthesis |
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Albert Parker
Wisconsin, 1980 |
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Department of Geography; biogeography and ecology |
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Mike Scanlon
Iowa State, 1993 |
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Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University; plant developmental biology |
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Ida Yates
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Will York
Georgia, 1996 |
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CCRC; structure, assembly, and morphogenesis of primary cell walls of plants |
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| Emeritus Faculty |
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Marie-Michèle Cordonnier-Pratt
Rouen, France, 1977 |
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Genomics and bioinformatics (Emeritus, 2006) |
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Marshall Darley
California, San Diego, 1969 |
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Physiological ecology of algae (Emeritus, 2006) |
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Melvin Fuller
California, Berkeley, 1959 |
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Development in lower fungi (Emeritus, 1995) |
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David Giannasi
Iowa, 1972 |
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Biochemical systematics (Emeritus, 2003) |
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Charles James
Duke, 1955 |
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Taxonomy of southeastern United States flowering plants |
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Samuel Jones
Georgia, 1964 |
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Systematics of flowering plants (Emeritus, 1991) |
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Joe Key
Illinois, 1959 |
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Biochemistry of plant growth and development (Emeritus, 2003) |
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Gary Kochert
Indiana, 1967 |
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Plant genetics and systematics (Emeritus, 2002) |
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Burlyn Michel
Chicago, 1950 |
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Plant water relations (Emeritus, 1988) |
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Carl Monk
Rutgers, 1959 |
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Species diversity; plant communities (Emeritus, 1990) |
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Barry Palevitz
Wisconsin, 1971 |
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Cell biology; motility (Emeritus, 2007) |
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David Porter
Washington, 1967 |
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Biology of marine fungi; cell biology (Emeritus, 2006) |
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Lee Pratt
Oregon State, 1967 |
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Genomics and bioinformatics (Emeritus, 2006) |
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