Mailing Address:
Fifield Hall
2550 Hull Road
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, Florida 32611
Office: 2111 Fifield Hall
Phone: (352) 273-4855
E-mail: alp@ufl.edu
My research interests focus on the regulation of plant gene expression in response to abiotic stress and extreme environments, with a particular interest in chromatin structure, genome organization, and epigenetic change. Venues associated with spaceflight provide an opportunity to explore plant genomic responses to an environment that is outside the evolutionary experience of terrestrial organisms. This unique platform presents a background by which adaptive metabolisms can be observed as they are crafted to cope with a stress de novo; providing a window into the origins of adaptive processes.
Authors | Year | Title / Description | Publication |
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Paul A-L, Sng NJ, Zupanska AK, Krishnamurthy A, Schultz ER, Ferl RJ | 2017 | Genetic dissection of the Arabidopsis spaceflight transcriptome: Are some responses dispensable for the physiological adaptation of plants to spaceflight? | PLoS One 12: e0180186 |
Zupanska AK, Schultz ER, Yao J, Sng NJ, Zhou M, Callaham JB, Ferl RJ, Paul A-L | 2017 | ARG1 Functions in the Physiological Adaptation of Undifferentiated Plant Cells to Spaceflight. | Astrobiology 17: 1077-1111 |
Paul A-L, Zhou M, Callaham JB, Reyes M, Stasiak M, Riva A, Zupanska AK, Dixon MA, Ferl RJ | 2017 | Patterns of Arabidopsis gene expression in the face of hypobaric stress. | AoB Plants 9: plx030 |
LeFrois CE, Zhou M, Amador DM, Sng N, Paul A-L, Ferl RJ | 2016 | Enabling the Spaceflight Methylome: DNA Isolated from Plant Tissues Preserved in RNAlater™ Is Suitable for Bisulfite PCR Assay of Genome Methylation. | Gravitational and Space Research 4: 28-37 |
Ferl RJ and Paul A-L. | 2016 | The effect of spaceflight on the gravity-sensing auxin gradient of roots: GFP reporter gene microscopy on orbit. | Nature Microgravity 2, 15023. |
Schultz E. R., Paul A.-L., and Ferl R. J. | 2016 | Root Growth Patterns and Morphometric Change Based on the Growth Media. | Microgravity Sci Technol: 1-11. |
Ferl RJ, Koh J, Denison F, Paul A-L | 2015 | Spaceflight Induces Specific Alterations in the Proteomes of Arabidopsis. | Astrobiology 15: 32-56. |
Paul A-L and Ferl RJ | 2015 | Spaceflight exploration in plant gravitational biology. | Methods in Molecular Biology 1309:285-305. |
Paul A-L, Zupanska AK, Schultz ER, Ferl RJ | 2013 | Organ-specific remodeling of the Arabidopsis transcriptome in response to spaceflight. | BMC Plant Biology. 13:112. |