FACULTY

Sharon Doty

Sharon Doty

Associate Professor
Phytoremediation; Plant biotechnology
http://faculty.washington.edu/sldoty/

Office: Winkenwerder 205
Phone: 206-616-6255 
Email: sldoty@u.washington.edu

Graduate Interest Group(s): FOREST ECOLOGY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL HORTICULTURE; FOREST SYSTEMS AND BIOENERGY; BIORESOURCE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

B.S., Genetics, University of California, Davis, 1989
Ph.D., Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, 1995
Courses Taught:
CFR 521Current Topics in Forest Resources (3)
CFR 522 Plant-Microbe Interactions (1)
CFR 550 Graduate Seminar (2-5)
ESRM 325 Forest Forest Bioresources (3)
ESRM 490 Special Topics (1-5)
Current Sponsored Research:
Cold and salt tolerance and yield enhancement in rice plants via fungal symbiosis
Enhanced efficiency of bioethanol production with novel yeast
Enhanced phytoremediation using endophytes
Enhancing phytoremediation using sweet potatoes from East Africa
Identification of eukaryotic genes required for nitrogen fixation
Nitrogen fixation in poplar: Increased efficiency of bioenergy crop production