• Our work aims to decode the genomic and biochemical features that contribute to the vast diversity of plants’ specialized metabolism.
• Our immediate focus is on the medicinal alkaloids, of which many constitute the essential ingredients of traditional medicine worldwide. We utilize available, and/or generate new genomic data of medicinal plants to investigate their metabolism with a suite of analytical, biochemical, bioinformatics, and molecular genetic approaches.
• Our long-term goal is to deliver biotechnologies that produce and/or customize high-value phytochemicals. These will allow sustainable alternatives complementing chemical extraction from plants or synthesis from petrochemicals.