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David L. Des Marais

  • Cecil & Ida Green Career Development Professor
  • Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

David Des Marais is the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Professor and an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He received a BA from UC Berkeley and a PhD from Duke University. Dave began focusing on plant ecophysiology while a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Texas, Austin. Current topics of interest include the regulatory control of stress response, resource partitioning, and climate resilience. A central theme of the Des Marais Lab is understanding the mechanisms and consequences of genotype-by-environment interaction, the widely observed phenomenon that different plant varieties respond differently to common environmental cues.

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