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Cara Gormally

PhD candidate, Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia

Office: 3507 Miller Plant Sciences

Email: cgormally@plantbio.uga.edu

 

PhD candidate, University of Georgia, 2004-present

BA, St. John’s College, 2002

 

 

Research interests:

My research interests lie at the intersection of evolutionary ecology, ecophysiology and population genetics.  I want to understand how plant populations respond to environmental pressures that vary across the range of a single species and identify traits which may be under selection.  Specifically, I am interested in exploring whether plant populations exhibit patterns of local adaptation and genetic variation due to natural selection along a shoreline to landward environmental gradient across the coastal dunes. 

I am also interested in increasing science literacy, as well as general understanding of the process of science.  Other research unrelated to my dissertation project focuses on the scholarship of teaching and learning at the university level.


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