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Aldwin Anterola

Associate Professor. Phytochemistry and Plant Secondary Metabolism

Aldwin Anterola

Phone: 618.453.3222
Office: Life Science II, Room 429
email: anterola@plant.siu.edu

My research involves studying the biosynthesis of plant constituents that have medicinal or industrial uses. We employ multidisciplinary techniques in phytochemistry, molecular biology, biochemistry and tissue culture to understand how the production of plant natural products is controlled. ...read full profile >>

Jose Franco Da Cunha Leme Filho

Assistant Professor, Plant Biology, Horticulture and Crop, Soil, and Environmental Management

Jose Franco Da Cunha Leme Filho

Office: Life Science III, 1005/1046
email:
jose.leme@siu.edu

Joint appointment in the School of Agricultural Sciences and School of Biological Sciences. The Cannabis Biology and Cultivation Systems lab focuses on areas of controlled environment agriculture, plant secondary metabolites, nutraceutical/pharmaceutical biology, and growing practices. We are ...read full profile >>

Karla Gage

Associate Professor. Weed Ecology

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Phone: 618.453.7679
Office: Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, Room 108
email: kgage@siu.edu

Dr. Gage holds a cross-appointment between the College of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Plant Soil and Agricultural Systems and the College of Agricultural, Life, and Physical Sciences, Plant Biology program.  She has experience working with weed management research, planning and ...read full profile >>

Nancy Garwood

Research Professor and Curator of the Herbarium. Tropical botany, ecology, systematics, conservation

Nancy Garwood

Phone: 618.453.3236
Office: Life Science II, Room 454
email: ngarwood@plant.siu.edu

I am a tropical botanist in the broadest sense, with active research projects in ecology, systematics and conservation. Linking these apparently disparate areas is a long-term focus on the seed and seedling stages of the life cycle. My first projects 25 years ago in Panama were community level studies ...read full profile >>

Matt Geisler

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies. Mathematical Biology

Matt Geisler

Phone: 618.453.3212
Office: Life Science II, Room 403
email: mgeisler@plant.siu.edu

Biology is now an information science, as DNA and protein sequences are digital, and data collected can be manipulated by decryption and database software. I use a novel combination of data mining software and high-throughput whole genome expression analysis to match cis-regulatory elements in ...read full profile >>

Jane Geisler-Lee

Research Professor. Bioinformatics, Cell Biology, Cell Wall Biology, Metabolism

Jane Geisler-Lee

Phone: 618.453.2576
Office: Life Science II, Room 483
email: geislerlee@siu.edu

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My main research interests are in systems biology approach to solve biological questions and environmental problems. My research group employs different microscopy, molecular cell biology, and different –omics studies to approach the problems and questions. Currently my funded research projects ...read full profile >>

Lahiru Jayakody

Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology

Lahiru Jayakody

Phone: 618-453-2767
Office:
Life Science II, 139
email:
lahiru.jayakody@siu.edu

Dr. Jayakody holds a cross-appointment between the College of Agricultural, Life, and Physical Sciences, Plant Biology and Microbiology programs and the Fermentation Science Institute. Research Interests: The growing concerns of petroleum-based fuels and chemicals on global climate change and ...read full profile >>

Kurt Neubig

Associate Professor. Systematics, Phylogenetics, and Biodiversity

Kurt Neubig

Phone: 618.453.3823
Office: Life Science III, Room 1004
Lab: Life Science III, Room 1045
email: kneubig@siu.edu

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My lab investigates plant systematic questions, both floristically and taxonomically focused.  Because evolution is the central unifying process of biology, the use of phylogenetic methods can give us an evolutionary perspective for interpreting variation in morphology, biogeography, ...read full profile >>

Sedonia Sipes

Associate Professor and Plant Biology Program Coordinator. Plant biodiversity and conservation biology

Sedonia Sipes

Phone: 618.453.3213
Office: Life Science II, Room 473
email: ssipes@plant.siu.edu

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My research focuses on the evolution of plant-insect interactions, specifically interactions between bees and their pollen and nectar host plants. I integrate both the botanical and entomological aspects of these interactions; I also address conservation implications of these interactions. My ...read full profile >>

Jennifer Weber

Assistant Professor and Biological Sciences Program Coordinator. Plant Ecology and Evolution

Jennifer Weber
Office: Life Science II, Room 0425A
Lab: Life Science II, Room 0425
email: jennifer.weber@siu.edu
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I am broadly interested in plant evolutionary ecology, and I currently study factors that drive trait variation at various spatial and temporal scales. Flowering plants provide an astounding template for studies of trait variation. For example, plant mating strategies have been the ...read full profile >>

Andrew Wood

Professor. Stress physiology

Andrew Wood

Phone: 618.453.5609
Office: Life Science II, Room 431
email: wood@plant.siu.edu

The molecular, cellular and biochemical responses of plants to water-deficit stress is the central, and long-term, interest of my research program. My laboratory is pursuing a two-pronged strategy, one basic and one applied, with the ultimate goal of improving drought-tolerance and yield ...read full profile >>