Grants

Community Genetics Fellowship

The Center for Community Genetics awards a one-year graduate fellowship per year. The 2001/2002 Community Genetics Fellow is Kristin Mercer, an Applied Plant Sciences Ph. D. graduate student. Kristin studies the level of hybridization between transgenic, herbicide resistant Brassica napus (Roundup Ready canola) and its wild relatives, and how introgression of Bt insecticidal transgenes of genetically modified canola into the gene pool of Brassica juncea (Indian or Brown mustard) affects lepidopteran herbivory damage on B. juncea.

Summer Research Grant Fellowships (2001)

• Pete Avis (Plant Biology): The effects of long-term fertilization on the mycorrhizal  communities of an oak savanna
• Charlie Barnes (Plant Pathology): The importance of inbreeding on selection and gene flow for maintaining genetic variation in Ustilago maydis (corn smut)
• Andrew Baumgarten (Plant Biology): Resistance to Ustilago maydis (corn smut) in its host Zea mays ssp. Mays (corn)
• James Garton (Plant Biology): Coevolution in the plant-pathogen system Ustilago maydis (corn smut) and its host Zea mays ssp. Mays (corn)
• Stacey Halpern (EEB): Ecological and evolutionary effects of drought on Lupinus perennis: Implications for prairie plants in future climates
• Jason Harmon (Entomology): A spatial simulation model predicting Coleomegilla maculata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) on European corn borer eggs in sweet corn
• Erin Hladilek (Entomology): Prey selection by Pterostichus melanarius and Evarthrus (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in an agricultural ecosystem
• Marlijn Hoogendoorn (Entomology): Effects of the introduction of an exotic species (Harmonia axyridis) on the native species Coleomegilla maculata
• Gina Hupton (EEB): Evolution of monarch butterfly larvae mating behavior within an ecological context
• Jana Lee (Entomology): Effects of floral sugar sources on host-parasitoid interactions in agroecosystems
• Jill Liske (EEB) Long-term dormancy in Solidago missouriensis (Missouri goldenrod) as a stress response
• Eric Lonsdorf (EEB): Effects of fragmentation on prairie plant communities
• Jeannette Martinez (EEB): Phylogenetic comparison of coevolution in three closely related Dragonfly species in the genus Somatochlora
• Andrew Munkacsi (Plant Biology): Response of Ustilago maydis (corn smut) to changes in population genetics structure, geographic distribution, and population sizes of its host Zea mays ssp. Mays (corn)
• Peter Voth (Plant Biology): Population structure of Ustilago maydis (corn smut) and its associated dsRNA virus
• Jennifer White (Entomology): Macrocentrus grandii behavior in response to the distribution of its host Ostrinia nubilalis (European corn borer)

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