#  Fitz Dougherty 

Graduate Student

 

 

 



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 location\_on Biological Laboratories16 Divinity AvenueCambridge, MA 02138 

 email <jdougherty@g.Harvard.edu> 

 



 

Stomata are complexes on leaves that allow plants to acquire CO2 when open, but opening stomata also results in a disproportionately large loss of water. I am broadly interested in how plants regulate their stomata and control gas exchange. I am studying stomatal regulation across the land plant phylogenies from a mechanical, cell-to-cell interaction perspective by exploring guard cell turgor pressure dynamics, a hormonal perspective by looking at the potential interaction of ABA and CO2, and an environmental stimulus perspective by investigating stomatal responses to VPD.



 

 

 





 

 

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