Rate My Professor Shaunna Phipps

Phipps's research interests focus on the role of sodium transport in salt tolerance in two species of Chara, with emphasis on physiological and molecular mechanisms in charophyte algae. She has produced key peer-reviewed publications advancing knowledge in this field. In 2021, the Journal of Phycology published her co-authored paper "The role of ion-transporting proteins in the evolution of salt tolerance in charophyte algae" with Charles A. Goodman, Charles F. Delwiche, and Mary A. Bisson. The same journal featured another 2021 article by Phipps, Goodman, Delwiche, and Bisson: "Salinity-induced changes in gene expression in the streptophyte alga Chara: The critical role of a rare Na+ ATPase." In 2022, she contributed to "The molecular identity of the Characean OH- transporter: a candidate related to the SLC4 family of animal pH regulators" in Protoplasma, alongside M. Parker, B. Quade, M.C. Hoepflinger, M. Bisson, I. Foissner, and M. Beilby. These publications detail ion transport and salinity response mechanisms.