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ISWS = Illinois State Water Survey NRES = Natural Resources & Env. Sci. INHS = Illinois Natural History Survey NSRC = National Soybean Research Lab NRB = Natural Resources Building NRSA = Natural Resources Studies Annex ERML = Edward R. Madigan Laboratory IGB = Institute for Genomic Biology |
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Lisa Ainsworth Assistant Professor 147 ERML MC-051 (217) 265-9887 |
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Plant physiological and molecular responses to global change, leaf growth and development, photosynthesis and carbohydrate metabolism | |||||||||
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Carol Augspurger Professor 155 Morrill MC-116 (217) 333-1298 |
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Phenology of trees and herbs, wind dispersal, seed and seedling ecology of tropical trees, plant-pathogen interactions. | |||||||||
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May Berenbaum Affiliate 216D Morrill MC-118 (217) 333-7784 |
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Chemical interactions between insects and host plants and their implications in the organization of natural communities | |||||||||
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Carl Bernacchi Assistant Professor 193 ERML MC-051 (217) 333-8048 |
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Impacts of climate change on crop physiology, energy fluxes between the atmosphere and plant canopies, carbon sequestration, crop canopy responses to stress | |||||||||
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James Dalling Associate Professor 149 Morrill MC-116 (217) 244-8914 |
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Tropical forest regeneration, seed and seedling ecology, pioneer species | |||||||||
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Sarah Davis Adjunct Assistant Professor 143 IGB MC-116 (217) 244-5952 |
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Systems analysis of the ecology of bioenergy ecosystems; ecophysiology and biogeochemistry of temperate forests and grasslands | |||||||||
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Evan DeLucia Arends Professor 1404 IGB MC-116 (217) 333-6177 |
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Physiological ecology of vascular plants, photosynthesis, plant architecture, stress, climate change | |||||||||
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Michael Dietze 1405 IGB MC-116 (217) 265-8020 |
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Ecological forecasting; climate change, environmental heterogeneity & disturbance interactions; biofuels & ecosystem services; forest gap dynamics; Bayesian statistics | |||||||||
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Stephen Downie Professor 239 Morrill MC-116 (217) 333-1275 |
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Molecular systematics and phylogeny of extant angiosperms, with emphasis on Apiaceae (Umbelliferae), chloroplast genome structural evolution | |||||||||
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Affiliate (CPSC) 259 ERML |
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Assistant Professor 192 ERML |
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Evolution of mutualisms, particularly between plants and microbes | |||||||||
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Steven Hill Affiliate (INHS) 382 NRB MC-652 (217) 244-8452 |
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Systematics of Malvaceae (cotton family), threatened and endangered plants, flora of Dominica | |||||||||
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Walter Hill Affiliate (INHS) 133 NRSA MC-652 (217) 244-2301 |
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Aquatic ecology, grazer-algal interactions, nutrient cycling, biofilm ecology, invasive fish | |||||||||
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Feng Sheng Hu Professor & Head 177 Morrill MC-116 (217) 244-2982 |
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Ecosystem ecology, quaternary paleoecology, climatic change and biotic response, soil and sediment biogeochemistry | |||||||||
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Steve Huber Professor 197 ERML MC-051 (217) 265-0909 |
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Regulation of carbon and nitrogen metabolism in source and sink tissues with emphases on nitrate reductase, sucrose synthase and protein kinase specificity | |||||||||
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Tom Jacobs Associate Professor 331 ERML MC-051 (217) 333-1518 |
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Environmentally-mediated variation in plant development; quantitative genetics & microevolution, cell division, axillary growth, stomatal development | |||||||||
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Andrew Leakey Assistant Professor 1402 IGB MC-116 (217) 244-0302 |
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Genomic ecology of plant ecological strategies, genomic responses to climate change, response of maize to elevated carbon dioxide and drought | |||||||||
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Geoffrey Levin Affiliate (INHS) 175 NRB MC-652 (217) 244-7481 |
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Systematics of flowering plants with particular emphasis on the Euphorbiaceae, phylogenetic analysis, floristics of North America and Mexico | |||||||||
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Steve Long Gutgsell Professor 134 IGB (217) 333-2487 |
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Environmental physiology, atmospheric change impacts on crops and natural vegetation, C4 photosynthesis, energy crops, mathematical models of photosynthesis |
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Andrew Miller Affiliate (INHS) 381 NRB MC-652 (217) 244-0439 |
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Character evolution of ascomycetes with emphasis on members of the Class Sordariomycetes, biodiversity and biogeography of ascomycetes | ||||
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Ray Ming Professor 148 ERML MC-051 (217) 333-1221 |
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Evolution of primitive sex chromosomes, genome structure of papaya, sugarcane, coffee and pineapple |
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Brenda Molano-Flores Affiliate (INHS) 387 NRB MC-652 (217) 265-8165 |
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Prairie restoration, plant-insect interactions, reproductive biology of plants, population biology, conservation biology | ||||
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Don Ort Emerson Professor 1406 IGB MC-195 (217) 333-2093 |
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Molecular and biochemical basis for environmental effects on photosynthesis, photosynthetic energy transduction | |||||||||
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Assisant Professor 139 Morrill (217) 244-8049 |
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Role of climate in long-term evolution of Neotropical forests; quantitative palynology | |||||||||
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Mary Schuler Affiliate 161 ERML MC-051 (217) 333-8784 |
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Pre-mRNA processing, P450 monooxygenases and their role in plant-insect interactions | |||||||||
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John Taft Affiliate (INHS) 399 NRB MC-652 (217) 344-5046 |
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Plant ecology and fire effects in oak woodland communities, floristic integrity for Illinois flora, vegetation ecology of grasslands, unique habitats in Illinois | |||||||||
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Colin Wraight Affiliate 160 Davenport MC-712 (217) 333-3245 |
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Electron and proton transfer in proteins, molecular engineering of ligand-protein interactions | |||||||||
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Ray Zielinski Professor 249 Morrill MC-116 (217) 333-6785 |
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Calmodulin, calcium-binding proteins, signal transduction, regulation of gene expression | |||||||||
Emeritus Faculty |
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Hans Bohnert 196 ERML MC-051 (217) 265-5475 |
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Molecular physiology and engineering of plant stress tolerance | |||
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Plant products, medicinal plants, environmental effects on plant natural product chemistry | ||||
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John Cheeseman 283 Morrill MC-116 (217) 300-9323 |
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Control and integration of resource acquisition and allocation in plants, organismal physiology, photosynthesis, nutrient transport; mathematical modeling | |||
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Richard Crang 655 Morrill MC-116 (217) 333-0616 |
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Microscopic analysis of plants and fungi under environmental stress | |||
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Jeff Dawson 1316 PSL MC-634 (217) 333-9281 |
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Symbiotic nitrogen fixation by woody plants, forest ecophysiology, soil microbiology, plant nitrogen nutrition, silviculture, forest ecology, urban forestry | |||
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Govindjee 669 Morrill MC-116 (217) 333-1794 |
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History of photosynthesis | |||
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Almut Jones 265 Morrill MC-116 (217) 333-3261 |
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Plant systematics with an emphasis on plants of Illinois | |||
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Tom Phillips 65 Morrill MC-116 (217) 333-0653 |
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Paleobotany with an emphasis on flora of the Carboniferous period | |||
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Archie Portis 193 ERML MC-051 (217) 333-3083 |
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Biochemistry, physiology and molecular biology of Rubisco and Rubisco activase | |||
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Kenneth Robertson 393 NRB MC-653 (217) 244-2171 |
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Systematics with emphases on Rosaceae, Amaranthaceae and Convolvulaceae, flowering plants of the Illinois prairie | |||
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Malcolm Sargent 629 Morrill MC-116 (217) 333-0287 |
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Creation of user friendly, perspective oriented guides for the identification of bryophytes (mosses, liverworts and hornworts) | |||
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David Seigler 633 Morrill MC-116 (217) 333-7577 |
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Phytochemistry, chemical ecology, plant systematics, secondary products as mosquito insecticides, antioxidants from berries, systematics of Acacia species. | |||
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Carol Shearer 655 Morrill MC-116 (217) 333-2796 |
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Ecology of freshwater saprophytic fungal communities, systematics and biogeography of freshwater ascomycetes and fungi imperfecti | |||