Professor
Department of Botany, Biodiversity Research Centre
IBioS Founding Member
Contact Details
lriesebe@mail.ubc.ca
Website(s)
https://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/loren-rieseberg
https://biodiversity.ubc.ca/people/faculty-staff/loren-rieseberg
Loren Rieseberg is a Professor in the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research Centre at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on topics such as adaptation, domestication, crop evolution, hybridization, and speciation. He is especially interested in how gene flow, both within and between species, influences these processes. He integrates genomic and phenotypic data with results from laboratory and greenhouse experiments to identify evolutionary changes that causally drive plant invasions, mine natural populations for agronomically useful alleles, develop pre-bred lines to deliver these alleles to plant breeders, and generate genomic tools and resources for important crops such as sunflower and Cannabis.
Research Themes
Adaptation | Domestication | Crop evolution | Speciation | Hybridization