NSF Proposal - 12. Roles Of Senior Personnel / Roles Of Collaborators / Timeline

ROLES OF SENIOR PERSONNEL:

• Charles O'Kelly: Project Coordinator; ultrastructural and morphological studies of "green algae" plus outgroups
• Dina Mandoli: Coordination of BAC library production and interpretation; generation of BIG DNA for BAC construction; generation of data on nuclear genes
• Richard Olmstead: Coordination of targeted sequencing of novel nuclear genes; phylogenetic analysis of organellar sequence data
• Karen Renzaglia: Ultrastructural and morphological studies of land plants; coordination of educational activities
• Paul G. Wolf: Coordinate acquisition of plant material, manage organelle extraction and DNA purification; shotgun sequence gap-filling
• Brent D. Mishler: Coordinate with DEEP GENE, develop tools for phylogenetic analysis and databases, phylogenetic analysis of organellar genomic data; compartmentalization
• Jeffrey L. Boore: Shotgun cloning; sequencing; assembly; annotation.
• Alan R. Smith: Assist in plant material collection and identification; analysis of morphological data for land plants
• Michael Donoghue: Construction of supertrees; study of character evolution; macroevolution
• Rod Wing: BAC library production

ROLES OF COLLABORATORS (see also attached letters):

• Melvin Oliver: Assistance with isolating organelle genomes; proteomics of the chloroplast.
• Robert Jansen: Coordinate chloroplast genome sampling with that of the seed plants; informatics and analysis of genomic characters.
• Jonathan Shaw: Molecular phylogenetic studies of bryophytes
• Richard McCourt: Supply charophyte material
• Charles Delwiche: Supply charophyte material; study coevolution of organellar and nuclear genomes
• Louise Lewis: Study other green transitions to land distinct from than embryophytes
• Mark Buchheim: Phylogenetic studies of the chlorophytes
• Marvin Fawley: Phylogenetic studies of the chlorophytes
• Rick Zechman: Phylogenetic and evolutionary studies of the ulvophytes; assist in educational programs [letter pending]
• Andy Knoll: Integration of fossils into deep green plant phylogentics
• Joseph Hellerstein: Research on phylogenetic data bases for heterogeneous data
• Bernard Moret: Development of novel phylogenetic algorithms; informatics, and databasing issues.
• Michael Sanderson: Application of compartmentalization and supertree approaches; molecular clocks, macroevolutionary study [letter pending: Dr. Sanderson is on travel]
• Roy Brown and Betty Lemmon: Ultrastructural and immunofluorescent studies of charophytes and embryophytes
• Roberto Ligrone: Anatomical, immunological and ultrastructural studies of bryophytes and pteridophytes
• Jeffrey Duckett: Morphological studies of streptophytes
• Thomas Friedl: Phylogenetic studies of the chlorophytes [letter pending, Dr. Friedl is on travel]
• B. Franz Lang: Organellar genome studies, with special reference to potential outgroups [letter pending]

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