University of Georgia Chair in the Biological Sciences, Department of Plant Biology, HHMI Professor

Dr. Wessler is co-author of The Mutants of Maize (Cold Spring Harbor Press), the textbooks Introduction to Genetic Analysis (Freeman) and Life (Sinauer), and over 120 research articles. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is an Associate Editor of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and is on the Baords of the Genetic Society of America and the Rosalind Franklin Society. Her scientific interest focuses on the subject of plant transposable elements and the evolution of plant genomes. She is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor whose project, The Dynamic Genome: Teaching Evolution to Undergraduates, recreates her research laboratory as an undergraduate classroom focused on the computational and experimental analysis of genomes.