About My ResearchI'm a plant biologist that uses stomata to study the dynamic relationship between plants and our environment. Stomata, the stained purple cells shown in the right-hand image (4x zoom of red oak leaves, approximately 400 stomata per mm2), are a fantastic study system because they respond to a variety of environmental cues on multiple time-scales, ranging from the instantaneous to yearly and decadal. I'm trained in a diverse set of disciplines, including plant physiology, ecology, molecular biology, and genetics, and I combine these approaches to answer fundamental questions about stomatal biology and the relationship between cells, the plant, and our changing environment.
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Education
• Harvard University
Postdoctoral Fellow 2014 - 2016 Organismic and Evolutionary Biology • Stanford University PhD, 2008 - 2014 Cell and Molecular Biology • Cornell University BSc, 2003 - 2007 magna cum laude Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Select Awards• NOAA Climate and Global
Change Postdoctoral Fellowship (UCAR) • Bio-X Bowes Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship (Stanford University) • Merrill Presidential Scholar (Cornell University) • Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence (SUNY) |
Select Papers
• Disruption of stomatal lineage signaling or transcriptional regulators has differential effects on mesophyll development, but maintains coordination of gas exchange. New Phytologist, 2017.
• The physiological importance of developmental mechanisms that enforce proper stomatal spacing in Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytologist, 2014. • Patterning and processes: how stomatal development defines physiological potential. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2014. |
Recent Talks
• Universität Würzburg, Department of Molecular Plant-Physiology and Biophysics. Würzburg, DE. November, 2019
• University of Zurich, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies. Zurich, CH. November, 2019 • University of California, Irvine, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Irvine, CA. May, 2018 |