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
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
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