Thomas Noland

I am the scientific leader of the Canada yew sustainable harvest project and a seed physiology project. In addition, I have a collaborative research projects in natural regeneration of eastern white pine with Ms. Andree Morneault and Dr. Bill Parker and in remote sensing using hyperspectral imagery and lidar for tree species identification, canopy chlorophyll content and stand condition with Dr. Baoxin Hu at York University and Dr. Valerie Thomas. I also manage the tree biochemistry laboratory at OFRI.

In this position I tried to clone the gene aspartokinase from tobacco for two years. In my last year, I successfully transformed tobacco with metallothionein and examined its expression in transgenic plants. I acquired skill in such molecular biology techniques as DNA/RNA extraction and hybridization, PCR, and plant transformation.