Research Interests and Experience
Research Interests and Experience
The overarching theme to my research is examining how plants react and adapt to environmental (abiotic) stresses. For more than a decade, I have investigated the impact of temperature on three different species from cold stratification germination requirements of garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata), to the combination of light and heat stress effects on the photosynthetic apparatus of the marine symbiotic algae Symboidinium, and most recently, the interplay of cold stress and hormone regulation in domestic soybean (Glycine max). My current lab at Manchester University will continue to focus on how plants respond to abiotic stress, specifically cold temperatures, in an effort to understand how changes at the molecular level are affecting physiology, using soybean and other species.
