Research in the Buckley lab focuses on physiological responses of
marine species to elevated temperature and other stressors. We work on
fishes from various habitats, comparing responses from eurythermal
species such as temperate, estuarine gobies to the cold-adapted
stenothermal species endemic to Antarctica. Using genomics-enabled
technologies such as cDNA microarrays, we are interested in
characterizing broad-scale patterns of environmentally controlled gene
expression, with the goal of linking these patterns to phenotypic
changes at the cellular and organismal level. Building an integrated
understanding of how events at the molecular level can impact a
species' ecology is key to our ability to predict the effects of the
coming change in global climate, particularly in the fragile Antarctic
ecosystem.
The lab is currently growing... please feel free to contact Brad
Buckley at bbuckley@pdx.edu
about graduate school opportunities.
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