Research Bio

Patricia Lang is an assistant professor in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology. Her lab aims to understand molecular pathways of developmental adaptability to a changing climate, using herbaria as windows into the past that allow time-traveling through the last ~200 years by following phenotype and genotype changes in historical herbarium specimens. Through herbarium genomics, evolution, and population genetics, her lab uncovers genes and pathways that have shaped plant responses over the last two centuries. These historical insights guide in-depth molecular and developmental biology experiments that study how plants sense and adjust to their environments. 

Visit the lab at www.patricialang.org.

Research Expertise and Interest

plant climate change adaptation, plant development, molecular biology, RNA silencing, herbarium genomics, genetics