• Biophysical and biochemical mechanisms controlling the structure, development, and evolution of land plants
• Fundamental principles of organismal form
• Active engagement pedagogy and multidisciplinary reasoning in introductory biology courses

Cooke, T.J., and Lu, B. 1992. The independence of cell shape and overall form in multicellular algae and land plants:  Cells do not act as building blocks for constructing plant organs.  International Journal of Plant Science 153:S7-S27.

Cooke, T.J., Tilney, M.S., and Tilney, L.G. 1996.  Plasmodesmata in apical meristems and mature structures: Geometric evidence for both primary and secondary formation of plasmodesmata.  In: Membranes: Specialized Functions in Plants, M. Smallwood, J.P. Knox, and D.J. Bowles, eds. pp. 471-488. BIOS Scientific Publishers: Oxford.

Kaplan, D.R., and Cooke, T.J.  1997. Fundamental concepts in the embryogenesis of dicotyledonous angiosperms: A morphological interpretation of embryo mutants. Plant Cell 11:1903-1919.

Cooke, T.J., Poli, DB., Sztein, A.E., and Cohen, J.D. 2002. Evolutionary patterns in auxin action. Plant Molecular Biology. 49: 319-338.

Poli, DB., Jacobs, M., and Cooke, T.J. 2003. Auxin regulation of axial growth in bryophyte sporophytes: Its potential significance for the evolution of early land plants. American Journal of Botany 90: 1405-1415.

Cooke, T.J., Poli, DB., and Cohen, J.D. 2004. Did auxin play a crucial role in the evolution of novel body plans during the late Silurian-early Devonian radiation of land plants? In: The Evolution of Plant Physiology: From Whole Plants to Ecosystems, A.M. Hemsley and I. Poole, eds., pp. 85-107. Academic Press: London.

Cooke, T.J. 2006.  Do Fibonacci numbers reveal the involvement of geometrical imperatives or biological interactions in phyllotaxis?  Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 150: 3-24.

Watkins, J.E., Coffey, J.E., Redish, E.F., and Cooke, T.J. 2012. Disciplinary authenticity: Enriching the reform of introductory physics courses for life science students. Physical Review Special Topics – Physics Education Research. 8, 010112. (http://prstper.aps.org/abstract/PRSTPER/v8/i1/e010112)

Banavar J.R., Cooke, T. J., Rinaldo, A., and Maritan, A. 2014. Form, function, and evolution of living organisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 111: 3332-3337

Jardine, H.E., Levin, D.M., Quimby, B.B., and Cooke, T.J. 2017. Group active engagement (GAE) exercises: Pursuing the recommendations of Vision and Change in an introductory undergraduate science course. Journal of College Science Teaching 46(5): 20-25.

• PBIO 225/BSCI 225 Introductory Plant Biology - structure, function, evolution, and human uses of plants
• BSCI 207/HLSC 207 Introductory Biology III: Organismal Biology - fundamental principles governing the function and evolution of all organisms
• HONR 239F Plants and Empires: Historical Issues and Contemporary Consequences - scientific, economic, and cultural perspectives characterizing plant-human interactions from the origins of agriculture to modern times.

Ph.D. Cornell University, 1979