People and Projects
Ecology | Plants | Humans | Animals |ClimateProject: Dynamics of the host-parasite system Daphnia dentifera-Metschnikowia [funded]
Description: This study focuses on the ecological interaction between a common microparasites and its Daphnia host species, and the consequences to coexisting zooplankton and their phytoplankton prey.
Alan Tessier, National Science Foundation
Meghan Duffy, Kellogg Biological Station and Department of Zoology (graduate student)
Carla Caceres, Department of Animal Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Sally MacIntyre, Marine Science Institute, University of California at Santa Barbara
Spencer Hall, Kellogg Biological Station and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (post doc)
Project 1: Plastidic dicarboxylate
translocators in plant ammonia assimilation [funded]
Description: This study investigates the genetics of the transport activities involved in the process of ammonia assimilation in plants.
Project 2: Mining of large genomic data sets to discover novel gene functions
Description: This study explores large genomic data sets through data mining methods and aims to develop statistical methods to aid in the discovery of gene function. A future goal is to integrate these methods in a relational database.
Andreas Weber, Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University
Dong-Yun Kim, Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University and Illinois State University
Vince Melfi, Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University
William Swindel, Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University (graduate student)
Project: VCA-PGR Triticeae -Fusarium
graminearum: Plant Response to Fungal Pathogenesis
Frances Trail,
Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University
Corby Kistler, University of Minnesota
Gary Muehlbauer, University of Minnesota
Jin Rong Xu, Purdue University
Tom Clemente, UNL
Cari Soderlund, University of Arizona
Project: Genetic association study for asthma and allergy [funded]
Description: This study addresses gene-environment interactions in asthma and allergy using a unique longitudinal cohort study and several candidate genes.
Susan Ewart, Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, Michigan State University
Wilfried Karmaus, Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University
Syed Hasan Arshad, Asthma and Allergy Research Centre, St. Mary's Hospital, Isle of Wight, and University of Southampton
Project: Neuroprotective factors in hypothalamic dopamine neurons [funded]
Description: This research studies selected genes likely to be involved in Parkinson’s disease in microarray experiments.
John Goudreau, Department of Neurology and Ophtalmology, Michigan State University
Project: Marek's Disease in Chicken
Description: This research involves the study of functionally characterizing genes involved in Marek's disease (a herpesvirus-induced T cell cancer) in chicken using microarrays.
Hans Cheng, USDA Avian Disease and Oncology Laboratory
Yuehua Cui, Department of Statistics and Probablity, Michigan State University
Guilherme Rosa, Department of Animal Science, Michigan State University
Project: Land use and climate change in East Africa [funded]
Description: This study involves modeling links and interactions between regional and global climate, land use and land cover changes.