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 Dr. Carl Douglas
Department of Botany
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
V6T 1Z4
Genome BC Project Leader
Dr. Carl Douglas is a Professor in the University of British Columbia Department of Botany, where he began as an assistant professor in 1987. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 1983 working in the area of plant transformation by Agrobacterium tumefaciens. This was followed by postdoctoral fellow positions at the University of Washington and at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany where he worked in the area of plant molecular biology and biochemistry. At UBC, he was promoted to Associate and Full Professor, and became Department Head in 1999. He spent the 2001/02 academic year as a Guest Professor at the University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna.
Dr. Douglas' research interests are in the area of the control of plant gene expression, plant phenolic metabolism, plant vascular development, and plant genomics. His lab has used Populus (poplar), a focal point of the Forestry Genomics project, as a model tree species since 1988. He has given numerous recent invited lectures in the U.S., China, Brazil, and Europe. He teaches courses in the UBC Biology Program on plant genetics and plant developmental physiology.
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