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Lisa Donovan
Professor of Plant Biology
Creative Research Medal 2006
Lisa Donovan, Professor of Plant Biology, approaches the concept of evolution from an ecological perspective by exploring how traits and adaptations enable newly-formed hybrid plants to survive. She is one of the founders of ecological-evolutionary functional genomics, and has applied her novel approach to the study of a hybrid sunflower that evolved in desert habitats and has more extreme versions of its parent-plants’ traits than either of the original two plants, which allow it to survive where its predecessors cannot.
Source: 27th Annual Research Awards Program (2006)
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