Research Areas include: Plant Comparative and Functional Genomics, Tree Biotechnology, Gene Silencing and MicroRNAs, Human Diseases including Diabetes and Cancer, Protein Aggregation Diseases and Protein Misfolding, Plant Phosphoinositides and Phytases, Glycomics and Glycoproteomics, Phytoremdiation, Plant Microbe Interactions, Mushroom Poison Resistance and Butterfly Wing Patterns, Histones and Bromodomains, Algal Extracellular Polymers, Conservation, Ecological and Population Genetics of Trees Graduate students in Biological Sciences, Chemistry, and Forestry publish their research work in peer reviewed scientific journals and present their work in national and international conferences Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, Michigan Research Excellence Fund, US Department of Agriculture, and National Institutes of Health

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