Projects deal with CO₂ acquisition by cyanobacteria and plants, and impact of climate change, and engineering plants that use less water.

• Synthetic Biology, Plant physiology, mebrane biology and molecular biology.
• Molecular and physiological analysis of CO₂ concentrating mechanisms (CCMs) in cyanobacteria and microalgae; Phylogentic analysis. ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis
• Exploiting CCM components to engineer crop plants with greater productivity under semi-arid conditions (RIPE Project).
• Strategies for building carboxysomes in plants chlooplasts (RIPE project) - Home | RIPE (illinois.edu) 
• Construction and analysis of mutants.
• CO₂ sensing in cyanobacteria.
• Regulation of gene expression.
• Proteomic identification of protein complexes.
• Photosynthetic enzyme analysis.
• Ion transport mechanisms.
• Electron microscopy and structural anlysis of carboxysomes.
• Phylogenetics & horizontal gene transfer.