Dr. McDonald is broadly interested in how organisms acclimate and adapt to biotic and abiotic stress. Her focus is on bioenergetics and how organisms transduce energy in order to survive in challenging conditions. Her primary interest is on alternative pathways of electron transport during respiration and photosynthesis in bacteria, protists, fungi, plants, and animals. Research in the McDonald lab is conducted at several different biological scales (molecules to organisms) and utilizes a wide variety of bioinformatics, molecular, biochemical, and physiological techniques to answer questions about how organisms survive in challenging environments. Dr. McDonald writes about issues pertaining to academic research, effective teaching, the professionalization of scientists, women in science, and working as a disabled scientist on her blog DoctorAl https://aemcdonald.wordpress.com/
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