Quentin Cronk

Quentin Cronk is a Professor in the Department of Botany at the University of British Columbia, affiliated with the Biodiversity Research Centre. His research integrates comparative genomics, molecular developmental biology, and evolutionary biology to study plant form evolution and adaptive traits.

• Model organisms: Leguminosae (floral morphology), Populus trichocarpa (adaptive tree evolution).
• Funding: NSERC Discovery Grants, Genome Canada.

Research Themes:

• Evolution of plant morphological diversity
• Genomic basis of adaptive traits
• Developmental gene regulation in flowers and leaves

Selected Article Trends: Recent work spans phylogenomics of hybridization, pollination syndromes, chloroplast evolution, and computational tools for genomic analysis. Key subfields include apetaly, sexual system variation, and fungal endophyte interactions.

Team Members:

• Current: Dr. Jiahong Han (Postdoc), Nicholas Bard (PhD), Dr. Diana Percy (Collaborator).
• Former: Dr. Armando Geraldes, Dr. Daisie Huang, Dr. Sæmundur Sveinsson.