The Baxter Lab is focused on understanding how plants adapt to their environment through the use of genetics, ionomics (high throughput elemental profiling) and phenomics (automated greenhouse and image analysis).

The Brophy Lab develops technologies that enable the genetic engineering of plants and their associated microbes with the goal of driving innovation in agriculture for a sustainable future.

The Cousins Lab couples molecular biology techniques with plant physiology and mathematical modeling of photosynthesis to understand the mechanistic processes dictating plant-environment interactions.

The Dinneny Lab aims to identify fundamental mechanisms used by plants to survive environmental stress, and to develop methods that allow us to model and tune such mechanisms through synthetic engineered organisms.

The major focus of the Leakey Lab is to understand the genetic and physiological controls of stomatal patterning and photosynthetic water use efficiency (WUE) through a combination of molecular genetics, quantitative genetics, and physiology.

The Kausch Lab has a primary focus on agricultural biotechnology and is fully equipped for plant transformation and transgenic biology with multiple species, molecular biology work and plant transgenic technology applications.

The Rhee Lab employs computational modeling and targeted laboratory testing to study mechanisms of adaptation, functions of novel genes, organization and function of metabolic networks, and chemical and neuronal code of plant-animal interactions.

The Voytas Lab is focused on optimizing delivery of nucleases and donor DNA molecules to plant cells to more efficiently achieve targeted genetic alterations - precisely editing crop DNA to reshape 21st century agriculture.