Courtland Kelly

Courtland Kelly

Courtland Kelly

Honors Thesis Student (OEB)

Courtland worked with me for her Harvard senior honors thesis project, where she performed de novo assembly of Chelidonium majus transcriptomes and followed the dynamics of global gene expression over the course of floral induction in this wild non-model system. Her combination of phenological and transcriptome analyses revealed a suite of temperature sensing genes that may mediate the distinctive ability of C. majus to sense fluctuating spring temperature and respond more appropriately than most plants. After graduation she moved to Colorado to lead educational nature hikes, and is now heading to medical school.