Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Plant Biology
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Recent Publications
Marks, R. A., Lovell, J. T., Carey, S. B., Van Der Pas, L., Chimukuche, N. M., Brůna, T., Plott, C., Webber, J., Lipzen, A., Yan, J., Bauer, D., Bentley, J., Talag, J., McLaughlin, C. M., Barry, K., Grimwood, J., Jenkins, J. W., Schmutz, J., Harkess, A., ... Farrant, J. M. (2026). The architecture of resilience: a genome assembly of Myrothamnus flabellifolia sheds light on desiccation tolerance and sex determination. New Phytologist, 249(2), 1063-1084. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70700
Marks, R. A., Ekwealor, J. T. B., Artur, M. A. S., Bondi, L., Boothby, T. C., Carmo, O. M. S., Centeno, D. C., Coe, K. K., Dace, H. J. W., Field, S., Hutt, A., Porembski, S., Thalhammer, A., van der Pas, L., Wood, A. J., Alpert, P., Bartels, D., Boeynaems, S., Datar, M. N., ... Rhee, S. Y. (2025). Life on the dry side: a roadmap to understanding desiccation tolerance and accelerating translational applications. Nature communications, 16(1), Article 3284. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58656-y
Sharaf, A., Marks, R., & Khayi, S. (2025). Advances in telomere-to-telomere plant genomes. In Plant Pangenomes and Pangenomics (pp. 571-592). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-26791-8.00027-3
Tebele, S. M., Marks, R. A., & Farrant, J. M. (2025). Microbial survival strategies in desiccated roots of Myrothamnus flabellifolia. Frontiers in Microbiology, 16, Article 1560114. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2025.1560114
Marks, R. A., Van Der Pas, L., Schuster, J., Gilman, I. S., & VanBuren, R. (2024). Convergent evolution of desiccation tolerance in grasses. Nature plants, 10(7), 1112-1125. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-01729-5