Rate My Professor Ross Waller

Waller's work delves into adaptations enabling apicomplexan parasites to exploit hosts, the molecular processes underlying endosymbiont establishment, chromatin management in the absence of histones in dinoflagellates and associated genome responses, and novel cell biological innovations in dinoflagellates that contribute to their symbiotic success. Notable publications include "Nuclear-encoded proteins target to the plastid in Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium falciparum" (1998, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), "Plastid evolution" (2008, Annual Review of Plant Biology), "Metabolic maps and functions of the Plasmodium falciparum apicoplast" (2004, Nature Reviews Microbiology), "A comprehensive subcellular atlas of the Toxoplasma proteome via hyperLOPIT provides spatial context for protein functions" (2020, Cell Host & Microbe), and "Endosymbiosis undone by stepwise elimination of the plastid in a parasitic dinoflagellate" (2015, PNAS). With thousands of citations across his over 300 publications, his research has profoundly impacted the fields of cell biology, evolution, organelles, symbiosis, and parasitology. He serves on the editorial board of The Cell Surface journal.