Faculty

Physiology & Development
Systematics & Evolution
Biochemistry & Genetics
Ecology & Climate Change
ISWS = Illinois State Water Survey
NRES = Natural Resources & Env. Sci.
INHS = Illinois Natural History Survey
NSRC = National Soybean Research Lab
NRB = Natural Resources Building
NRSA = Natural Resources Studies Annex
ERML = Edward R. Madigan Laboratory
IGB = Institute for Genomic Biology
Lisa Ainsworth
Assistant Professor
147 ERML MC-051
(217) 265-9887
Plant physiological and molecular responses to global change, leaf growth and development, photosynthesis and carbohydrate metabolism
Carol Augspurger
Professor
155 Morrill MC-116
(217) 333-1298
Phenology of trees and herbs, wind dispersal, seed and seedling ecology of tropical trees, plant-pathogen interactions.
May Berenbaum
Professor
216D Morrill MC-118
(217) 333-7784
Chemical interactions between insects and host plants and their implications in the organization of natural communities
Carl Bernacchi
Affiliate (ISWS)
612 ISWS MC-674
(217) 333-8048
Impacts of climate change on crop physiology, energy fluxes between the atmosphere and plant canopies, carbon sequestration, crop canopy responses to stress
Hans Bohnert
Professor
196 ERML MC-051
(217) 265-5475
Molecular physiology and engineering of plant stress tolerance
Don Briskin
Professor
380 NSRC MC-637
(217) 244-1115
Plant products, medicinal plants, environmental effects on plant natural product chemistry
John Cheeseman
Professor
283 Morrill MC-116
(217) 333-2385
Control and integration of resource acquisition and allocation in plants, organismal physiology, photosynthesis, nutrient transport; mathematical modeling
Richard Crang
Emeritus
655 Morrill MC-116
(217) 333-0616
Microscopic analysis of plants and fungi under environmental stress
James Dalling
Associate Professor
149 Morrill MC-116
(217) 244-8914
Tropical forest regeneration, seed and seedling ecology, pioneer species
Jeff Dawson
Affiliate (NRES)
1316 PSL MC-634
(217) 333-9281
Symbiotic nitrogen fixation by woody plants, forest ecophysiology, soil microbiology, plant nitrogen nutrition, silviculture, forest ecology, urban forestry
Evan Delucia
Professor and Head
1404 IGB MC-116
(217) 333-6177
Physiological ecology of vascular plants, photosynthesis, plant architecture, stress, climate change
Stephen Downie
Professor
239 Morrill MC-116
(217) 333-1275
Molecular systematics and phylogeny of extant angiosperms, with emphasis on Apiaceae (Umbelliferae), chloroplast genome structural evolution
Govindjee
Emeritus
669 Morrill MC-116
(217) 333-1794
History of photosynthesis
Steven Hill
Affiliate (INHS)
382 NRB MC-652
(217) 244-8452
Systematics of Malvaceae (cotton family), threatened and endangered plants, flora of Dominica
Walter Hill
Affiliate (INHS)
133 NRSA MC-652
(217) 244-2301
Aquatic ecology, grazer-algal interactions, nutrient cycling, biofilm ecology, invasive fish
Feng Sheng Hu
Professor
177 Morrill MC-116
(217) 244-2982
Ecosystem ecology, quaternary paleoecology, climatic change and biotic response, soil and sediment biogeochemistry
Steve Huber
Professor
197 ERML MC-051
(217) 265-0909
Regulation of carbon and nitrogen metabolism in source and sink tissues with emphases on nitrate reductase, sucrose synthase and protein kinase specificity
Tom Jacobs
Associate Professor
331 ERML MC-051
(217) 333-1518
Environmentally-mediated variation in plant development; quantitative genetics & microevolution, cell division, axillary growth, stomatal development
Almut Jones
Emeritus
265 Morrill MC-116
(217) 333-3261
Plant systematics with an emphasis on plants of Illinois
Andrew Leakey
Assistant Professor
1402 IGB MC-116
(217) 244-0302
Genomic ecology of plant ecological strategies, genomic responses to climate change, response of maize to elevated carbon dioxide and drought
Geoffrey Levin
Affiliate (INHS)
175 NRB MC-652
(217) 244-7481
Systematics of flowering plants with particular emphasis on the Euphorbiaceae, phylogenetic analysis, floristics of North America and Mexico
Steve Long
Emerson Professor
379 ERML MC-051
(217) 333-2487
Environmental physiology, atmospheric change impacts on crops and natural vegetation, C4 photosynthesis, energy crops, mathematical models of photosynthesis
Andrew Miller
Affiliate (INHS)
381 NRB MC-652
(217) 244-0439
Character evolution of ascomycetes with emphasis on members of the Class Sordariomycetes, biodiversity and biogeography of ascomycetes
Ray Ming
Professor
148 ERML MC-051
(217) 333-1221
Evolution of primitive sex chromosomes, genome structure of papaya, sugarcane, coffee and pineapple
Brenda Molano-Flores
Affiliate (INHS)
387 NRB MC-652
(217) 265-8165
Prairie restoration, plant-insect interactions, reproductive biology of plants, population biology, conservation biology
Don Ort
Professor
1406 IGB MC-195
(217) 333-2093
Molecular and biochemical basis for environmental effects on photosynthesis, photosynthetic energy transduction
Tom Phillips
Emeritus
65 Morrill MC-116
(217) 333-0653
Paleobotany with an emphasis on flora of the Carboniferous period
Archie Portis
Affiliate (USDA-ARS)
193 ERML MC-051
(217) 333-3083
Biochemistry, physiology and molecular biology of Rubisco and Rubisco activase
Kenneth Robertson
Affiliate (INHS)
393 NRB MC-653
(217) 244-2171
Systematics with emphases on Rosaceae, Amaranthaceae and Convolvulaceae, flowering plants of the Illinois prairie
Mary Schuler
Professor
161 ERML MC-051
(217) 333-8784
Pre-mRNA processing, P450 monooxygenases and their role in plant-insect interactions
David Seigler
Professor
633 Morrill MC-116
(217) 333-7577
Phytochemistry, chemical ecology, plant systematics, secondary products as mosquito insecticides, antioxidants from berries, systematics of Acacia species.
Carol Shearer
Emeritus
655 Morrill MC-116
(217) 333-2796
Ecology of freshwater saprophytic fungal communities, systematics and biogeography of freshwater ascomycetes and fungi imperfecti
John Taft
Affiliate (INHS)
399 NRB MC-652
(217) 344-5046
Plant ecology and fire effects in oak woodland communities, floristic integrity for Illinois flora, vegetation ecology of grasslands, unique habitats in Illinois
Colin Wraight
Professor
160 Davenport MC-712
(217) 333-3245
Electron and proton transfer in proteins, molecular engineering of ligand-protein interactions
Ray Zielinski
Professor
249 Morrill MC-116
(217) 333-6785
Calmodulin, calcium-binding proteins, signal transduction, regulation of gene expression