Todd C. Mockler

Biography

The ultimate goal of the Mockler lab is to elucidate the means to predict plant performance, responses, and behaviors from genetic/epigenetic/transcriptomic data across a range of environments. Achieving this goal requires developing new computational tools, predictive algorithms, modeling approaches, development of monocot-focused experimental tools, and a high-throughput digital phenotyping platform.

Research Interest

Genomics, functional genomics, phenomics, systems biology, bioinformatics, transcriptional regulation, plant biology, molecular biology, molecular genetics, genetics, computational biology, and developmental biology. The research efforts we will pursue will be directed at empirical elucidation of transcriptional regulatory networks. The goal will be to functionally and physically define, characterize, and perturb key transcriptional regulatory networks directly relevant to plant responses to abiotic stress (cold, salt, drought, heat) and plant performance (yield, growth).