Office Address
1445 Gortner Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108
United States
Kathleen Greenham
Assistant Professor
Plant and Microbial Biology
Our lab focuses on deciphering how internal timekeeping regulates plant growth by coordinating physiological and metabolic processes with the environment. We are examining how intraspecific variation in gene regulatory networks alters physiological and metabolic responses to abiotic stress in Arabidopsis thaliana and Brassica rapa. We are also investigating how cell-type specific circadian clock networks influence tissue level functions.
Research statement
We are working on developing temporal networks of genomic and physiological responses to abiotic stress to address the following questions: (1) How are diel processes coordinated in the plant to maximize fitness? (2) How are stress responses integrated into these diel processes? (3) Can we optimize the temporal stress response to increase tolerance while maintaining fitness? Rather than thinking of stress response as on or off, my lab aims to fine-tune the timing of response using a phase-based approach. Candidate genes will be selected using network modeling that integrate temporal datasets of transcript, metabolite and physiology profiles.
Education and background
- B.S. - Queen's University, 2006
- Ph.D. - University of California, San Diego, 2011
- NSF-NPGI Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2012-2015
- Postdoc - Dartmouth College, 2018