Phenotyping, comparative biology, & machine learning
Linking photosynthetic anatomy, physiology, and genomic features across vascular plants.
Advances in sequencing have facilitated RNA and DNA data collection, but phenotyping — measuring any and all observable traits, such as morphology, physiology, or genomic features like gene copy number — remains a bottleneck for many areas of biology. During the course of various projects I have developed and applied novel methods to collect and analyze phenotypic data to understand the patterns and processes that shape vascular plant diversity.
Related publications: (Gilman et al., 2024) (Marks et al., 2024)