Professor Daniel Gibbs
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Research Interests
Research in Professor Gibbs' lab investigates how plants sense and respond to changes in their environment, and how these signals are integrated with growth and development. A major focus is understanding how environmental cues such as oxygen availability are perceived at the molecular level, and how they influence processes including development, metabolism and responses to environmental stress. We are particularly interested in the roles of regulated protein stability and chromatin-based mechanisms in controlling these responses, including how plants establish longer-lasting molecular memories of environmental conditions. A second major theme is understanding how plants maintain protein homeostasis by coordinating protein synthesis, quality control and degradation, and how these processes are adjusted in response to changing environmental and cellular conditions. More broadly, our research seeks to uncover fundamental mechanisms connecting environmental sensing, protein regulation and gene expression, with the longer-term aim of understanding how plants coordinate growth, development and adaptation in a changing environment.
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