Horticultural Sciences

Dr. Anna-Lisa Paul

Anna-Lisa Paul

Mailing Address:
Fifield Hall
2550 Hull Road
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, Florida 32611

Office: 2111 Fifield Hall
Phone: (352) 273-4835
E-mail: alp@ufl.edu
Lab: UF Space Plants

Areas of Research

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.

Educational Background
- B.A., Botany, University of South Florida (1980)
- M.S., Plant Phys. / Physiological Ecology, University of South Florida (1984)
- Ph.D., University of Florida, Molecular Genetics / Epigenetics (1989)
- Postdoctoral, UF and Northwestern University, Chromatin Architecture (1990-95)

International Experience
- 2016 – present, German Space Agency (DLR), Bremen Germany - The EDEN ISS project, including deployment to Neumayer Research Station, Antarctica
- 2004 – present, University of Guelph, Guelph Ontario, Canada – hypobaric Mars analog habitats
- 2006 – 2011, Arctic Research in the Canadian High Arctic – the Haughton Mars Project on Devon Island