Welcome to the Heyduk lab @ UConn
We are a plant evolutionary biology group in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at the University of Connecticut. The lab’s research integrates plant physiology and genomics in a comparative framework to understand evolution of plant adaptations to their environments, with a particular focus on photosynthetic diversity.
Lab presents at Botany 2025
The lab gave talks, posters, and lightning talks – and got to hang out with Joshua trees!
NSF grant funded!
The lab was awarded a new grant, with collaborators at Colorado College and the New York Botanical Garden, to study the impacts of nitrogen and photosynthetic pathway on leaf economics and life history traits in bromeliads.
