Education

PhD – Texas (2001)

MSc – UBC (1996)

BSc – Université d'Ottawa (1992)

Research & Teaching Interests

Plant evolutionary biology, including systematics, phylogeny, molecular evolution and speciation. Current research focuses on conservation and floristics of the East Gulf Coastal Plain ecosystem.

Recent Publications

Hansen, C. J.  and L. R. Goertzen. 2012.  Psora icterica (Lecanorales, Psoraceae), a new and interesting disjunction confirmed in Alabama. Opuscula Philolichenum 11: 49–51.

Zwack, P. J.  Shi, X. Robinson, B.R., Gupta S., Compton, M,. Gerken, D., Goertzen, L.R.  and A.M Rashotte.  2012. Vascular Expression Patterns Are Conserved across Evolutionarily Distinct Lineages of Cytokinin Response Factors. Plant Cell Physiol. 53: 1683–1695.

Jiang, K. and L. R. Goertzen. 2011. Spliceosomal intron size expansion in domesticated grapevine (Vitis vinifera). BMC Research Notes 4:52.

Goertzen, L. R., J. L. Trusty and R. S. Boyd. 2011. Clonal diversity and genetic structure in the endangered Alabama leather flower Clematis socialis Kral (Ranunculaceae). Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 138:41–51.

Yuying S., A. Rashotte, Y. Si, L. R. Goertzen and N. K. Singh. 2011. Expression, in vivo localization and phylogenetic analysis of a pyridoxine 5’-phosphate oxidase in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 49:88–95.

Rashotte, A.M. and L.R. Goertzen. 2010. The CRF domain defines Cytokinin Response Factor proteins in plants. BMC Plant Biology 10:74.

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