Gernot Presting
Professor
Department of Molecular Biosciences & BioEngineering
University of Hawaii
United States of America
Biography
Education : PhD: University of Wisconsin-Madison BSc: University of Delaware
Research Interest
Research Interests : Bioinformatics – computational analysis of sequence data Plant Genome Evolution – evolutionary forces on genome expansion Biodiversity – analysis of conserved sequences and lateral gene transfer Centromeres - composition and evolution of plant centromeres
Publications
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Campbell MA, Presting G, Bennett MS, Sherwood, AR. 2014. Highly conserved organellar genomes in the Gracilariales as inferred using new data from the Hawaiian invasive alga Gracilaria salicornia (Rhodophyta). Phycologia, 53:109-116.
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Sharma A and Presting G. 2014. Evolution of Centromeric Retrotransposons in Grasses. Genome Biology and Evolution. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evu096.
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Sherwood AR, Carlile AL, Neumann JM, Kociolek JP, Johansen J, Lowe RL, Conklin KY, Presting G. 2014. The Hawaiian Freshwater Algae Biodiversity Survey (2009-2014): systematic and biogeographic trends with an emphasis on the macroalgae. BMC Ecology, 14:28. Doi: 10.1186/s12898-014-0028-2
