Lab Members: Wolf and Takebayashi Labs

Principle investigators

Naoki Takebayashi
email: ffnt at uaf.edu

Diana Wolf
email: diana.wolf at uaf.edu

Graduate Students

Jessica Beecher
MS Research: Evolution of freezing tolerance and avoidance in Arabidopsis kamchatica

Paul Heflinger
MS Research: Population genetics of self-incompatibility genes in Alaskan poppies

Robert Lichvar
Director of the National Wetland Plant List
ERDC, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)
PhD Research: Taxonomic and phylogenetic clarification of Lepidium sp.

Christian Richey
email: ftcbr at uaf.edu
MS Research: Mating system and evolution of nectar production in Collinsia

Former Postdocs

Janette Steets
email: janette.steets at okstate.edu
Research: Influence of herbivory on mating system evolution. Selection on a trichome polymorphism in subarctic Arabidopsis
Current position: Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University

Takashi Miyake
email: tmiyascb at yahoo.co.jp
Research: Evolution of imprinted genes in Arabidopsis relatives, plant-pollinator interactions, self-incompatibility in Alaskan poppies
Current position: Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Niigata University, Japan

Undergraduate Research Students

Alyssa Crawford
Research: Methods for producing polyploids in Arabidopsis lyrata
Research: Inheritance of self-incompatibility in a tetraploid Alaskan poppy, Papaver nudicaule ssp. Americanum

Erin Johnston
Research: Ecological genetics of a trichome polymorphism in Arabidopsis kamchatica, and balancing selection on the GL1 gene

Eric Olson
Research: Transformation of Arabidopsis kamchatica

Annalisa Stephens
Research: Imprinting of the FWA gene in developing seeds of Arabidopsis lyrata

Former Undergraduate Research Students

Jessica Beecher
Research: Polyploid origins of Arabidopsis lyrata ssp. kamchatica
Current: Graduate Student, UAF

Vanessa Dominguez
Research: Population genetics of self-incompatibility genes in Alaskan poppies

Alex Grantham
Research: Population genetics of self-incompatibility genes in Arabidopsis

Paul Heflinger
Research: Population genetics of self-incompatibility genes in Alaskan poppies
Current: Graduate Student, UAF

Rev Orion
Research: Inbreeding depression in self-compatible populations of Arabidopsis lyrata ssp. kamchatica
Current: earned MS in biology education, K-12 teacher

Dane Salter
Research: Patterns of genetic diversity in Arabidopsis lyrata ssp. kamchatica
Current: Lab technician University of Alaska, Anchorage

Jim Warner
Research: Population genetics of an imprinted gene in Arabidopsis
Current: Graduate Student, UAF

Lacie Westbrook
Research: Population genetics of self-incompatibility genes in Arabidopsis
Current: Graduate Student, Antioch University New England

Diana Wolf
dewolf@alaska.edu
907-474-5538