Elizabeth A. Kellogg, PhD
We are fascinated by the elegant and diverse forms that plants can take, and we explore the biological basis of this diversity.
Member
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Adjunct Professor
Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences Program
Evolution, Ecology and Population Biology Program
Molecular Genetics and Genomics Program
Plant evolution; evo-devo; genomics; phylogeny
We are fascinated by the elegant and diverse forms that plants can take, and we explore the biological basis of this diversity. For some of us, the exploration leads us to look below the surface at the machinery that controls plant shape and structure; this work has been variously described as evolutionary developmental genetics, or evo-devo. For others in the lab, the exploration leads us to investigate the variations on a single morphological theme by studying closely related plants in a single genus; these studies fall into the discipline of systematics.