Thomas Mitchell-Olds
Professor

668-1635

3312 French Family Science Center

Mitchell-Olds Lab

Research Interests: Evolutionary, Ecological, & Agricultural Functional Genomics

Much of our research is focused on the genes that affect ecological success and evolutionary fitness in natural environments. Similarly, the interaction of crop plants with their biotic and abiotic environments is controlled by complex trait variation which can be elucidated by interdisciplinary analyses incorporating functional genomics, physiological and chemical ecology, and population and quantitative genetics. We work at several levels: genetic variation within populations, local adaptation among populations, and the evolution of species differences. Our study system is centered on the wild relatives of Arabidopsis, as well as physiological genomics of grasses and cereals in natural and agricultural populations.

Representative Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. Mitchell-Olds, T., J. Willis, and D. Goldstein, Which evolutionary processes influence natural genetic variation for phenotypic traits?, Nature Reviews Genetics, vol. 8 (2007), pp. 845-856 .
2. Schranz M, A. Windsor, B. Song, A. Lawton-Rauh, T. Mitchell-Olds, Comparative genetic mapping in Boechera stricta, a close relative of Arabidopsis, Plant Physiology, vol. 144 (2007), pp. 286-298 .
3. Mitchell-Olds, T., and J. Schmitt., Genetic mechanisms and evolutionary significance of natural variation in Arabidopsis, Nature, vol. 441 (2006), pp. 947-952 .
4. Windsor, A.J., M.E. Schranz, N. Formanová, S. Gebauer-Jung, J. Bishop, D. Schnabelrauch, J. Kroymann, and T. Mitchell-Olds, Partial shotgun sequencing of the Boechera stricta genome reveals promoter conservation and microsynteny with Arabidopsis, Plant Physiology, vol. 140 (2006), pp. 1169-1182 .
5. Kroymann, J., and T. Mitchell-Olds, Epistasis and balanced polymorphism influencing complex trait variation, Nature, vol. 435 (2005), pp. 95-98 .