Undergraduate Research
Undergraduate Research and Conference Funding
The Environmental & Plant Biology Department actively encourages undergraduate research and scholarly activity.
Each undergraduate is required to complete at least one semester of research (PBIO 4940). There are numerous faculty who are willing to sponsor undergraduate research, and there are also financial resources to support your work.
Internships
Recent Undergraduate Research and Conference Presentations
Botanical Society of America 2014, Botanical Society of America, Boise, ID, Do cryptic species partly explain extensive variation in eastern North American Viola subsinuata ( Violaceae )?, Robertson, A. (Presenter & Author), Ballard, Jr., H. E. (Author Only), Accepted. (July 2014).
Botanical Society of America 2014, Botanical Society of America, Boise, ID, Investigations of Petiole Anatomy and Leaf Epidermal Morphology of Tovomita ( Clusiaceae ), Tomaz, E. (Presenter & Author), Gahagen, B. (Author Only), Ballard, Jr., H. E. (Author Only), Accepted. (July 2014).
Botanical Society of America 2014, Botanical Society of America, Boise, ID, Microsatellite markers developed to characterize winter hazel ( Corylopsis ) species, Benson, C. H. (Presenter & Author), Ballard, Jr., H. E., Thammina, C. (Author Only), Olsen, R. (Author Only), Pooler, M. (Author Only), Accepted. (July 2014).
Botanical Society of America 2014, Botanical Society of America, Boise, ID, Viola nephrophylla Greene in the eastern United States?new distributional records and habitat associations for an overlooked violet, Zink, J. (Presenter & Author), Ballard, Jr., H. E. (Author Only), Accepted. (July 2014).
Northeast Algal Symposium, Newport RI, Comparative phylogeography of Batrachospermum gelatinosum (Batrachospermales, Rhodophyta) in Europe and North America, Keil, E. (Presenter & Author), Macy, T. (Author Only), Kwandrans, J. (Author Only), Eloranta, P. (Author Only), Tomas, P. (Author Only), Aboal, M. (Author Only), Vis, M. (Author Only). (April 26, 2014).
Northeast Algal Symposium, Newport RI, Grazing effects on biofilms along an acid mine drainage remediation gradient, Lindner, J. (Presenter & Author), Drerup, S. (Author Only), Johnson, K. S. (Author Only), Vis, M. (Author Only). (April 26, 2014).
Midwestern Section American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) annual meeting, Columbus, OH (USA), Arabinogalactan-Protein and Cell Wall-Associated Receptor Kinase Interactions: Cellular Signaling of Root Growth in Arabidopsis, DeBrosse, T. (Presenter & Author), Poirier, E. (Author Only), Basu, D. (Author Only), Showalter, A. M. (Author Only), Accepted. (March 22, 2014).
Midwestern Section American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) annual meeting, Columbus, OH (USA), Physiological and biochemical characterization of genetic mutants for a galactosyltransferase (GALT3) involved in arabinogalactan-protein glycosylation in Arabidopsis thaliana , Poirier, E. (Presenter & Author), DeBrosse, T. (Author Only), Basu, D. (Author Only), Liang, Y. (Author Only), Showalter, A. M. (Author Only), Accepted. (March 22, 2014).Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gravitational and Space Research, American Society of Gravitational and Space Research, Pasadena, CA, Identification of the gene defective in gravity persistence signal (gps) 6 of Arabidopsis thaliana , Hall, Z. (Presenter & Author), Hayden, M. (Author Only), Osika, M. (Author Only), Wyatt, S. E. (Author Only). (October 2014).
Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gravitational and Space Research, American Society of Gravitational and Space Research, Pasadena, CA, Microarray of GPS Treatment Reveals Novel Genes Involved in Signal Transduction, Cook, C. A. (Presenter & Author), Tucker, A. (Author Only), Wyatt, S. E. (Author Only). (October 2014).
Publications
Journal Article, Academic Journal, Published, Diversity of freshwater red algae (Rhodophyta) in Malaysia and Indonesia from morphological and molecular data, Johnston, E. T., Lim, P.-E., Buhari, N., Keil, E. J., Djawad, M. I., Vis, M., Phycologia, 2014.