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Dr. Andrew Leakey

 

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Employment and Education

2007-present Assistant Professor – Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2007-present Faculty Member – Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2004-2007 Research Fellow – Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2002-2004 Post-Doctoral Associate – Dept. of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2002-2003 Fulbright Scholar – Dept. of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1998-2002 Ph.D. Photosynthetic and growth responses of dipterocarp tree seedlings to dynamic irradiance. Dept. of Animal and Plant Sciences,University of Sheffield, UK
1995-1998 B.Sc. Plant Sciences (1st Class) Dept. of Animal and Plant Sciences,University of Sheffield

 

Publications
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Recent Awards

2006 Best Poster at American Society for Plant Biology Symposium on Transpiration
2006 College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Team Award for Research Excellence (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
2002 Fulbright Scholar

Current Funding

2007 How will productivity, evapotranspiration & insect herbivory of the Midwest agroecosystem respond to the combined drought and elevated [CO2] anticipated for 2050? ($369,648) with SP Long, DR Ort & EH Delucia. National Center for Climate Change Research, DOE

Recent Invited Oral Presentations

  1. Functional genomics and field ecology: mechanistic insights from microarray analysis of soybean responses to elevated [CO2]. (Aug 2007) Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting.
  2. Using microarrays to reveal the mechanism of crop responses to global climate change under field conditions. (April 2007) International Rice Research Institute Workshop – Cool Rice for a Warmer World.
  3. How will the gene expression profile, biochemistry and physiology of soybean leaves respond to growth at elevated [CO2] under open-air field conditions? (Feb 2007) Institute for Genomic Biology Fellows Symposium – The Future of Biology.
  4. Plant responses to global change and a new genomic ecology approach. (Nov 2007) ImperialCollege, London, UK.
  5. Ecological genomics: new insights from microarray analysis of soybean responses to elevated CO2 and O3 under Free-Air Concentration Enrichment (Nov 2006) University of Florida.
  6. Elevated CO2 does not stimulate C4 photosynthesis directly, but impacts water relations and indirectly enhances carbon gain during drought stress in maize (Zea mays) grown under free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE). (Nov 2006) Crop Science Society of America Annual Meeting.
  7. Plant responses to global change and a new genomic ecology approach. (Nov 2006) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  8. Food for thought: crop responses to climate change in the 21st century (Oct 2006) International Education Symposium, HathawayBrownSchool, Shaker Heights, Ohio.
  9. Ecological genomics: new insights from microarray analysis of soybean responses to elevated CO2 and O3 under Free-Air Concentration Enrichment (Oct 2006) University of Colorado.
  10. Food for thought: crop responses to climate change in the 21st century (Sept 2006) Illinois Wesleyan University
  11. Microarray analysis of gene expression responses in soybean to growth at elevated [O3]. (2006) NE1013 National Program Workshop.


Selected media reports of research findings

2006

Australian Broadcast Corporation online news
Rising CO2 less of a boost to food crops http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1675546.htm
2006 Chicago Tribune - Global Warming perk disputed
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-
0606300155jun30,1,147123.story?coll=chi-news-hed
2006

Daily Illini newspaper – Crops ready for 2050 climate
http://www.dailyillini.com/media/storage/paper736/news/
2006/03/30/News/Crops.Ready.For.2050.Climate-
1765489.shtml?norewrite200605221708&sourcedomain=www.dailyillini.com
2004

Nature News – Climate change could boost cash crops
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040216/full/040216-8.htm
2003

EurekaAlert.com website – Increasing carbon dioxide relieves drought stress in corn, researchers say. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-
07/uoia-icd072503.php
2003

ScienceDaily.com website – Increasing carbon dioxide relieves drought stress in corn, researchers say.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/07/030728080920.htm