Our lab studies the causes and consequences of climate adaptation in plants.  By connecting functional genomic diversity with plant traits and the climate components that drive their evolution, we seek to address classic questions in evolutionary biology and the challenges of climate stress in agriculture.

The tools we use include functional annotation of genomic diversity and gene-editing to identify genes affecting adaptation at genomic scales and functional molecular resolutions. We also employ remote sensing and function-valued trait approaches to study the environmental drivers, physiology, and ecosystem consequences of genome-environment interactions. Our work is based on the principle that a mechanistic understanding of climate adaptation lies in multidisciplinary syntheses connecting genomes, traits, and environments.