Current Projects

• Archaeal Window into the Origin of Sexual Reproduction in Microbial Eukaryotes. Collaboration with Jocelyne DiRuggiero (Johns Hopkins University), Rachel Whittaker (University of Illinois), and Dipti Nayak (University of California — Berkeley).

Past Projects

• (GA) Assembling the Green Algal Tree of Life (GrAToL)
• (GA) Can Evolutionary History Predict How Changes in Biodiversity Impact the Productivity of Ecosystems?
• (D) 2015 Genealogy of Life
• MRI: Acquisition of a Leica Confocal Microscope to Develop a Visual Imaging Center
• (D) Assembling the Tree of Life: an integrated approach to the phylogeny of dinoflagellates
• High speed acquisition of plant distribution data for Maryland
• (GA) Microbial genome sequencing: EST survey of charophycean green algae
• A proposal to sequence the genome of [Ostreococcus] the world’s smallest eukaryotic primary producer
• (D) Plastid-associated genes in dinoflagellates identified by cDNA screening and expression analysis
• “Deep Green” Computational Challenges Meeting
• (GA) Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy (PEET): a unified approach to systematics of basal streptophytes (charophycean green algae)
• (D) Isolation and molecular phylogenetic analysis of the dinoflagellate peridinin-type plastid genome