Welcome to the Cronk laboratory
at the Biodiversity Research Centre, UBC
Research on the evolution and development of plants
Evolutionary developmental biology, floral biology, adaptation genomics
Our lab integrates comparative genomics, molecular developmental biology and evolutionary biology to study plant form. We are interested in the how different morphologies evolve in plants, as well as the functional significance of morphological differences between species.
Our main model organisms for this include the Leguminosae (floral morphology) and black cottonwood, Populus trichocarpa (adaptive evolution of trees).
