EGRINs (Environmental Gene Regulatory Influence Networks) in Rice That Function in the Response to Water Deficit, High Temperature, and Agricultural Environments

Author Profile

Olivia Wilkins and Christoph Hafemeister

Highlighted Paper: Wilkins et al et al. (2016). EGRINs (Environmental Gene Regulatory Influence Networks) in Rice That Function in the Response to Water Deficit, High Temperature, and Agricultural Environments. Plant Cell. Advance Publication September 21, 2016; doi:10.1105/tpc.16.00158.

Olivia Wilkins

Current Position: Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Science at McGill University.

Education: PhD (2010) in Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Toronto and BSc (2000) in Environmental Science at the University of Manitoba, Canada.

Non-scientific Interests: Literature, dance, walking.

During my PhD at the University of Toronto, I became interested in the ways in which plants integrate multiple, simultaneous environmental signals into adaptive functional responses. As a postdoc at New York University, I worked in a collaborative team studying gene regulatory networks. Now as I start my own group at McGill University, I am bringing these areas of study together to build a plant systems biology research program.

Christoph Hafemeister

Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, New York Genome Center.

Education: PhD (2016) in Computational Biology at New York University, MS (2008) and BS (2006) in Bioinformatics at Freie Universitä.t Berlin, Germany.

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During my undergrad and MS at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, I became interested in modeling gene expression time course data for classification of drug treatment responses. Later during my PhD, I wanted to gain a mechanistic understanding of transcriptional dynamics by combining information about transcription factor binding motifs and DNA accessibility with large-scale expression time series.