Associate Professor
Biological Sciences Department
Office: 150 Long Hall
Phone:
Email: cewells@clemson.edu
Educational Background
Ph.D. Plant Physiology
Penn State 1999
B.S. Biology
Temple University 1994
Courses Taught
BIOL 3040/3080 Biology of Plants
Creative Inquire: Botanical Collection Team
BIOL 8710: Directed Readings in Plant Stress Physiology
Research Interests
I use next generation sequencing and bioinformatics to answer fundamental questions in plant biology, including (1) how do trees control their annual cycles of dormancy, and (2) how do plant parasitic nematodes manipulate host genomes to evade detection and construct novel feeding structures?