Alistair Rogers, Ph.D. Scientist Environmental Sciences Department Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973-5000 (631) 344 2948 arogers@bnl.gov

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Research Interests

My research aims to improve understanding of the mechanisms that underlie whole plant and ecosystem responses to global change.  Much of my research has been focused on the long-term response of plants to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) concentration in large field experiments where Free Air CO₂ Enrichment technology has been used to expose vegetation to the levels of CO₂ predicted to occur in the middle of the century.  We have found that a sustained stimulation in photosynthesis and growth is dependent on the capacity to utilize the extra photosynthate produced at elevated CO₂ and on an adequate nitrogen supply.  Signals for the carbon and nitrogen status of a plant, and to an extent the ecosystem, are brokered in the leaf and my lab is focused on understanding and elucidating the interactions between carbon and nitrogen metabolism that underlie many of the commonly observed responses of plants and ecosystems to global change.

Recent Publications

• Rogers A, Ainsworth EA, Leakey ADB (2009)  Will elevated carbon dioxide concentration amplify the benefits of nitrogen fixation in legumes? Plant Physiology 151, 1009-1016. (pdf)
• van der Lelie D, Taghavi S, Monchy S, Schwender J, Miller L, Ferrieri R, Rogers A, Zhu W, Weyens N, Vangronsveld J, Newman L (2009) Poplar and its bacterial endophytes: coexistence and harmony.  Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 28, 346-358. (pdf)
• Leakey ADB, Ainsworth EA, Bernacchi CJ, Rogers A, Long SP, Ort DR (2009) Elevated CO₂ effects on plant carbon, nitrogen and water relations: six important lessons from FACE. Journal of Experimental Botany. 60, 2859-2876. (pdf)
• Rogers A, Gibon Y (2009) Enzyme kinetics: theory & practice. In: Plant Metabolic Networks (J Schwender Ed.)  pp 71-103. ISBN 978-0-38-778744-2. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York. (pdf)
• Cseke LJ, Tsai C-J, Rogers A, Nelson MP, White HL, Karnosky DF, Podila GK (2009) Transcriptomic comparison in the leaves of two aspen genotypes having similar carbon assimilation rates but different allocation patterns under elevated CO₂. New Phytologist. 182, 891-911. (pdf)
• Leakey ADB, Ainsworth EA, Bernard SM, Markelz RJC, Ort DR, Placella SA, Rogers A, Smith MD, Sudderth EA, Weston DJ, Wullschleger SD, Yuan S (2009) Gene expression profiling - opening the black box of plant ecosystem responses to global change. Global Change Biology. 15, 1201-1213. (pdf) 
• Lewin KF, Nagy J, Nettles WR, Cooley DM, Rogers A (2009) Comparison of gas use efficiency and treatment uniformity in a forest ecosystem exposed to elevated [CO₂] using pure and pre-diluted Free Air CO₂ Enrichment technology. Global Change Biology. 15, 388-395. (pdf)

Invited Talks

• 2009 Speaker, Earth Day and 449th Brookhaven Lecture, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA.
• 2009 Seminar, Consortium for Inter-Disciplinary Environmental Research, Stony Brook University, USA.
• 2009 Speaker, Ground Level Ozone Workshop, Stony Brook University, USA.
• 2008 Seminar, Bayer Crop Sciences, Ghent, Belgium.
• 2007 Speaker, FACEing the Future:Planning the Next Generation of Elevated CO₂ Experiments on Crops and Ecosystems, European Science Foundation, Rome, Italy (Science Position Paper resulting from this meeting).
• 2007 Speaker, Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA, USA.
• 2006 Speaker, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, International Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, USA.
• 2004 Speaker, International Photosynthesis Congress, Montreal, Canada.
• 2004 Speaker, International FACE workshop, Ascona, Switzerland.
• 2003 Speaker, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, International Annual Meeting, Denver, USA.
• 2001 Seminar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA.

Professional Activities and Affiliations

• Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
• Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Global Change Biology.
• Member of the American Society of Plant Biologists and the Ecological Society of America.
• Member of the Aspen FACE Experiment Steering Committee.

Awards

• 2004 Outstanding Mentor.  Department of Energy, Office of Science, Undergraduate Research Programs.
• 2002 Outstanding Mentor.  Department of Energy, Office of Science, Undergraduate Research Programs.

Education

• Ph.D. Biology, 1998, University of Essex, UK.
• B.Sc. Biochemistry & Botany, 1994, University of Wales, Bangor, UK.

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