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Elizabeth A Weretilnyk is a Professor in the Department of Biology at McMaster University, affiliated with the Faculty of Science. Her research focuses on plant stress biology, particularly in extremophiles like Eutrema salsugineum and Thellungiella species. She investigates molecular mechanisms underlying plant adaptation to abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity, and nutrient limitation through genomic, transcriptomic, and biochemical approaches.
Education: B.Sc. in Agriculture (University of Alberta) and Ph.D. in Plant Biochemistry (University of Alberta). She teaches advanced courses including Plant Physiology (BIOLOGY 3B03), Plant Metabolism and Molecular Biology (MOLBIOL 4BB3/6BB3), and seminar courses (BIOLOGY 700A/B/S). Her work integrates computational biology tools like machine learning for lncRNA prediction and RNA-Seq analysis.
Research highlights include discovering constitutive adaptations in Eutrema salsugineum for phosphate limitation tolerance, characterizing drought response strategies in ecotypes, and developing pathosystems to study disease resistance in stress-tolerant plants. Her lab explores stress-induced gene expression dynamics in natural habitats and controlled environments, emphasizing phenotypic plasticity and genetic load in extremophiles.
