Associate Professor Rene Vaillancourt
Head of School
PhD (Saskatchewan)
Contact Details
| Contact Campus |
Sandy Bay Campus |
| Building |
Life Sciences Building |
| Room Reference |
202b |
| Telephone |
+61 3 6226 7137 |
| Fax |
+61 3 6226 2698 |
| Email |
R.vaillancourt@utas.edu.au |
Teaching Responsibilities
- KPA215 - Genetics and Evolution
- KPA377 - Molecular Ecology and Evolution
- KPZ164 - Cell Biology, Genetics and Evolution
Publications
- Steane DA, Myburg AA, Sansaloni C, Petroli C, Grattapaglia D, Kilian A, Vaillancourt RE, , '(in press) DArT arrays for genetic mapping and diversity analysis of Eucalyptus. ', Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
- Larcombe MJ, McKinnon GE, Vaillancourt RE, 2011, 'Genetic evidence for the origins of range disjunctions in the Australian dry sclerophyll plant Hardenbergia violacea.', Journal of Biogeography, 38, 125–136
- Sansaloni CP, Petroli CD, Carling J, Hudson CJ, Steane DA, Myburg AA, Grattapaglia D, Vaillancourt RE, Kilian A, 2010, 'A high-density Diversity Arrays Technology (DArT) microarray for genome-wide genotyping in Eucalyptus. (online at http://www.plantmethods.com/content/6/1/16/abstract).', Plant methods
- Worth JRP, Jordan GJ, Marthick JR, McKinnon GE, Vaillancourt RE, 2010, 'Chloroplast evidence for geographic stasis of the Australian bird-dispersed shrub Tasmannia lanceolata (Winteraceae).', Molecular Ecology, 19, 2949-296
- Mimura M, Barbour R, Potts BM, Vaillancourt RE, Watanabe KN, 2009, 'Comparison of contemporary mating patterns in continuous and fragmented Eucalyptus globulus native forests. ', Molecular Ecology, 18, 4180-4192
- Worth JRP, Jordan GJ, McKinnon GE, Vaillancourt RE, 2009, 'The major Australian cool temperate rainforest tree Nothofagus cunninghamii withstood Pleistocene glacial aridity within multiple regions: evidence from the chloroplast', New Phytologist, 182, 519-532
- Freeman J, Potts BM, and Vaillancourt RE, 2008, 'Few Mendelian genes underlie the quantitative response of a forest tree, Eucalyptus globulus, to a natural fungal epidemic.', Genetics, 178, 563-571
Research Interests
My research interest focuses on three areas: Population and conservation genetics of plants, and genomics of eucalypts.
This research involves studying the natural history and genome structures of plants species, especially forest trees and eucalypts from south-eastern Australia. It involves using molecular tools to help the conservation of endangered as well as widespread plant species and understand their evolution including phylogeny and phylogeography. We also use molecular tools to discover the QTL, genes and alleles that control natural genetic variation for important traits in Eucalyptus including traits that could help the genetic improvement of Eucalyptus plantations in Australia.
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