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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Ecology and Biodiversity of Plants and Ecosystems,Plant Genetics and Genomics,Bioinformatics and Theoretical Biology |
| Keywords | climate, germination, dormancy, flowering time, Arabidopsis |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Davis |
| Institution | University of California, Davis |
| Institute | Department of Evolution and Ecology |
| Homepage | http://plantgxe.ucdavis.edu/ |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Maarten Koornneef | Abteilung Pflanzenzüchtung und Genetik, Max-Planck-Institut für Pflanzenzüchtungsforschung, Köln |
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| Prof. Dr. George Coupland | Abteilung Entwicklungsbiologie der Pflanzen, Max-Planck-Institut für Pflanzenzüchtungsforschung, Köln |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/02/2007 |
Programme(s)
| 2006 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Schmitt is Stephen T. Olney Professor of Natural History and Professor of Biology at Brown University, Rhode Island. She studies plant evolution and particularly how plants evolve to become adapted to their environment. In this context, she showed that responses of plants to shading caused by crowding are adaptive, conferring high relative fitness in different environments. Recently, she initiated a multidisciplinary project utilizing the genetic tools available in the model plant species Arabidopsis thaliana to investigate the adaptive evolution of complex characters. She is now extending this work to measure natural selection on flowering in five field sites across Europe. During her Humboldt Research Award she will collaborate with Prof. George Coupland and Prof. Maarten Koornneef at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Köln, where she will investigate evolutionary and genetic mechanisms for the joint evolution of timing of flowering and germination. |