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Gregory L. Boyer
Professor
Chair and Professor 10

320 Jahn Lab
1 Forestry Dr.
Syracuse, New York 13210

Phone: (315) 470-6825/470-6720
Email: glboyer@esf.edu

Profile

Ph.D. 1980 University of Wisconsin Department of Biochemistry. Post-doctoral Investigator, Michigan State University (1980-1982) and University of British Columbia (1982-1985).

I am current acting director for the Great Lakes Research Consortium, a network of eighteen New York Universities and nine Canadian affiliates looking at all aspects of Great Lakes science, policy and ecology. In addition, my own research interests are in biologically active natural products produced by algae. This includes toxins produced by dinoflagellates and cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) as well as allelopathic compounds and siderophores. For more information on my research interests and the students in my laboratory, look at the links below.

• Greg Boyer's homepage
• MERHAB-LGL, our project to develop monitoring protocols for cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) toxins the lower Great Lakes.
• Great Lakes Research Consortium

Recent Publications

• Wilhelm, S. W. and G. L. Boyer, Ecology: Healthy competition (2011) Nature Climate Change, 1, 300–301.
• L. Boyer, G. S. Sayler, and S. W. Wilhelm (2011) Global gene expression profiling in larval zebrafish exposed to microcystin-LR and Microcystis reveals endocrine disrupting effects of cyanobacteria. Environ. Sci. Technol. 45: 1962-1969.
• Wilhelm, S. W., S. E. Farnsley, G. R. LeCleir, A. C. Layton, M. F. Satchwell, J. M. DeBruyn, G. L. Boyer, G. Zhu, and H. W. Paerl (2011) The relationships between nutrients, cyanobacterial toxins and the microbial community in Taihu (Lake Tai), China. Harmful Algae, 10: 207-215
• Smith, J. L., K. L. Schulz, P. V. Zimba, and G. L. Boyer (2010) Possible mechanism for the foodweb transfer of covalently-bound microcystins. Ecotoxicology and Environm. Safety. 73: 757-761
• Rogers, E. D., T. B. Henry, M. J. Twiner, J. S. Gouffon, J. T. McPherson, G. L. Boyer, G. S. Sayler, and S. W. Wilhelm (2011) Global gene expression profiling in larval zebrafish exposed to microcystin-LR and Microcystis reveals endocrine disrupting effects of cyanobacteria. Environ. Sci. Technol. 45: 1962-1969.
• Becker, R.H., Sultan, M.I., Boyer, G.L., Twiss. M.R., and Konopko, E. (2009) Mapping cyanobacterial blooms in the Great Lakes using MODIS, J. Great Lakes Res. 35: 447-453

Additional references and publications are available on my homepage.

Prospective students are strongly encouraged to contact members of the faculty directly.

If you want more information about the graduate program, please follow this link to a brief form.