Origin of new genes in the grasses, using maize model developmental systems and comparative grass genomics.
Epigenetics of Mu transposons in maize and other grasses (D. Lisch).
Developmental genetics of the maize coleoptile, and the interaction between Knox genes (rs1, gn1 in maize, knat1, knat2 in Arabidopsis) with their negative regulatory genes (rs2/as1).
The meaning and uses of conserved noncoding sequences (CNSs = big phylogenetic footprints) in the grasses.