![Graduate students, from left: Yuan (Susan) Zhang, Alex Meyers, Kathleen Gabler, Marion Holmes, Nick Tomeo, Anne Sternberger, Proma Basu](https://www.ohio-forum.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Plant-Biology-2016-Expo-group.jpg)
Graduate students, from left: Yuan (Susan) Zhang, Alex Meyers, Kathleen Gabler, Marion Holmes, Nick Tomeo, Anne Sternberger, Proma Basu
Fifteen graduate and 7 undergraduate students from Environmental & Plant Biology were among the 840 undergraduate, graduate and medical students who presented at Ohio University’s Student Research & Creative Activity Expo on April 14.
Congratulations to this year’s PBIO winners!
Graduate Student Awards
Student: Anne Sternberger
Title: “Using a De Novo Assembled Genome to Investigate Floral Genes in the Chasmogamous/Cleistogamous Mixed Breeding System”
Adviser: Dr. Harvey Ballard
Environmental & Plant Biology G1 (1st place)
Student: Ryan Dorkoski
Title: “Carbon Allocation to Fine Roots is Decreased by Soil Phosphorus Availability in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Plants”
Adviser: Dr. Jared DeForest
Environmental & Plant Biology G1 (2nd place)
Student: Nicole Kirchner
Title: “Aquatic and Terrestrial Microbial Community Functional Responses to Nutrient Limited Environments”
Adviser: Dr. Jared DeForest
Environmental & Plant Biology G2 (1st place)
Student: Colin Kruse
Title: “A Data-Enabled Approach to Gravity Signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana”
Adviser: Dr. Sarah Wyatt
Environmental & Plant Biology G2 (2nd place)
Student: Alexander Meyers
Title: “Identification and Investigation of Genes Involved in Early Gravitropic Signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana”
Adviser: Dr. Sarah Wyatt
Sigma Xi (2nd place)
Undergraduate Student Awards
Students: Andrew Fox and Morgan Varner
Title: “Influence of Internal Lead Anatomy on Photosynthesis”
Adviser: Dr. David Rosenthal
Environmental & Plant Biology UG1 (1st place), OMSAR (3rd place)
Student: Chris Benson
Title: “A Reverse Genetic Analysis on Eight Genes Involved in Gravity Signaling”
Adviser: Dr. Sarah Wyatt
Environmental & Plant Biology UG2 (2nd place), Sigma Xi (2nd place)
Student: Kyle Gatt
Title: “Species Discovery and Evolution in a complex Violet group”
Adviser: Dr. Harvey Ballard
Environmental & Plant Biology UG2 (1st place)
Student: Jeremy Held
Title: “Confirming knockout mutations of eight genes potentially involved in the gravitropic response of Arabidopsis”
Adviser: Dr. Sarah Wyatt
Environmental & Plant Biology UG2 (2nd place), Sigma Xi (1st place)
The Student Research and Creative Activity Expo is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Creative Activity and the Dean of the Graduate College, Office of the President, Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost and University Libraries.
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