Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Plant Biology
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Recent Publications
dos Santos, W. L., Maciel-Silva, A. S., Pinheiro, F., & Marks, R. (2026). The Architecture of Sexual Systems in Mosses and its Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 66. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icag016
Marks, R. A., Abrahams, R. S., & Ekwealor, J. T. B. (2026). Shaped by context: Evolutionary trajectories of desiccation tolerance in land plants. American Journal of Botany, 113(4), Article e70180. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.70180
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
Vanburen, R., Nguyen, A., Marks, R. A., Mercado, C., Pardo, A., Pardo, J., Schuster, J., St. Aubin, B., Wilson, M. L., & Rhee, S. Y. (2026). Variability in drought gene expression datasets highlights the need for paired physiology and community standardization. Plant physiology, 200(1), Article kiaf653. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiaf653
Volaire, F., Gleason, S. M., Carminati, A., Griffin-Nolan, R. J., Mencuccini, M., Barkaoui, K., Bucci, S., Carriquí, M., Comas, L., Coupel-Ledru, A., Leverett, A., Marks, R., Martinez-Vilalta, J., Rowland, L., Stewart, J. J., & Vadez, V. (2026). From growth potential to drought survival: a trait- and time-based framework for plant water economics across vascular species. New Phytologist, 250(1), 21-40. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70922