Brent Buckner (PhD, University of Vermont). Molecular genetics of maize. 

Buckner B, J Beck, KF Browning, AE Fritz, E Hoxha, LD Grantham, ZN Kamvar, AN Lough, O Nikolova, PS Schnable, MJ Scanlon, D Janick-Buckner (2007) Involving undergraduates in the annotation and analysis of global gene expression studies: creation of a maize shoot apical meristem expression database. Genetics, 176(2): 741-747. 

Beck J, B Buckner, O Nikolova, and D Janick-Buckner (2007) Using interdisciplinary bioinformatics undergraduate research to recruit and retain computer science students. SIGCSE Bulletin, 39(1):358-361. 

M. Scott Burt (PhD, University of New Mexico). Mammalian ecology; Curation of mammal research collection. 

Kevin G. Eulinger, M. Scott Burt.   2007.  Comparison of trap success between Sherman folding traps and museum special snap traps.  Southwestern Naturalist. (accepted pending revision) 

Kevin G. Eulinger, Peggy S. Luensmann, and M. Scott Burt.  2006.  The Mammals of Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge. Transactions of the Missouri Academy of Science.

Cynthia Cooper (PhD, Texas A&M University). Recent studies include bacteriological analyses of local streams and lakes.  Field trips and lab work are combined to learn more about the environmental impact of municipal, corporate, and agricultural waste effluents on streams and lakes in northern Missouri.

Cooper, C.L. Impact of Service Learning and Community Engagement on Learning in a Sophomore Introductory Microbiology Course, American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators, May 2006, Orlando, FL

Cooper, C.L. Community Research and Service Learning: Impact on Student Learning, Attitudes and on the Community, American Society for Microbiology General Meeting, May 2007, Toronto, Ontario 

Laura Fielden (PhD, University of Natal, South Africa). Energy and water balance in ectoparasitic arthropods (fleas and ticks); ectoparasite host relationships; arid zone biology. 

Sartifi, M., Krasnov, B. R., Ghazaryan, L., Khokhlova, I., Fielden, L. J., and Degen, A. 2005. Energy costs of blood digestion in a host-specific haematophagous parasite. Journal of Experimental Biology 208: 2489-2496. 

Korte, K. M., L. J. Fielden, and J. Agnew. 2005.  To run, stomp, or study: Hissing cockroaches in the classroom. Young Children 60: 12-18.

Stephanie Foré (PhD, Miami University). Ecological genetics; population and community biology; ectoparasite host relationships; conservation biology

Tague, R. T. and S. A. Foré. 2005. Analysis of the spatial genetic structure of Passiflora incarnata L. in recently disturbed sites. Canadian Journal of Botany 83: 420-426.

Kreher, S. A., S. A. Foré, and B. S. Collins. 2000. Genetic variation within and among patches of the clonal species, Vaccinium stamineum L. Molecular Ecology 9: 1247-1252.

Jon Gering (PhD, Miami University). Phylogenetic community ecology; Evolutionary ecology of insects, especially katydids; Spatial scale and ecological patterns. 

Gering, J.C., *K.A. DeRennaux, and T.O. Crist.  2007.  Scale-dependence of effective specialization: Its analysis and implications for estimates of global insect species richness.  Diversity and Distributions 13:115-125. 

Frederick, K.H.* and J.C. Gering.  2006.  A field study of host tree associations of an exotic species, the Asiatic Oak Weevil [Cyrtepistomus castaneus (Roelofs 1873)].  American Midland Naturalist 155:11-18. 

José Herrera (PhD, Kansas State University). Microbial ecology; microfungal community dynamics; microbe-vertebrate interactions; mycorrhizal-plant interactions; microfungal imaging.

Herrera, J. 2005. Assessment of fungal growth on sodium polyborate-treated cellulose insulation. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene 2:  626 – 632.

Porras-Alfaro, A., Herrera, J., Natvig, D.O., Sinsabaugh, R.  2007.  Long-term nitrogen fertilization affects dominant mycorrhizal fungi in semiarid grassland.  Plant and Soil, 296:65-75. 

Elisabeth A. Hooper (PhD, University of Kansas). Plant taxonomy; Missouri flora; biosystematics and evolution of ferns; reproductive biology of epiphytes; herbarium curation.  

Haufler, C. H., E. A. Hooper and J. P. Therrien. 2000. Modes and mechanisms of speciation in pteridophytes: implications of contrasting tempos in temperate and tropical habitats. Journal of Plant Research 15: 223-236.  

Hooper, E. A. and C. H. Haufler. 1997. Genetic diversity and breeding system in a group of neotropical, epiphytic ferns (Pleopeltis; Polypodiaceae).  American Journal of Botany 84: 1664-1574. 

Diane Janick-Buckner (PhD, University of Vermont). Cell and molecular analysis of maize. 

Zhang X, S Medi, L Borsuk, DS Nettleton, B Buckner, D Janick-Buckner, J Beck, M Timmermans, PS Schnable, MJ Scanlon (2007) Laser microdissection of narrow sheath mutant maize uncovers novel gene expression in the shoot apical meristem. PLoS Genetics, 3(6): 1040-1052. 

Buckner B, J Beck, KF Browning, AE Fritz, E Hoxha, LD Grantham, ZN Kamvar, AN Lough, O Nikolova, PS Schnable, MJ Scanlon, D Janick-Buckner (2007) Involving undergraduates in the annotation and analysis of global gene expression studies: creation of a maize shoot apical meristem expression database. Genetics, 176(2): 741-747. 

Michael Kelrick (PhD, Utah State University). Terrestrial plant ecology; experimental investigation of ecological   factors affecting seed fates; population ecology, especially of rare plants; conservation biology. 

Kelrick, M. I. 2001. Missouri bladder-pod monitoring protocol for Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield. Final report to the Biological Resources Division, United States Geological Survey and the Great Plains Prairie Cluster Long-Term Ecological Monitoring Program, National Park Service, Department of the Interior. 

Jordan, N., M. Kelrick, J. Brooks and W. Kinerk. 1999. Biorational management tactics to select against triazine-resistant Amaranthus hybridus: a field trial. Journal of Applied Ecology 36: 123-132. 

Michael Lockhart (PhD, University of Kansas). DNA repair and mutagenesis in slime molds; parasexual genetics; bacteriophage ecology and genomics; microbiology of water. 

Annuar, M. 1992. Detection of a sequence homologous to the denV gene in Wild-Type and in partially-complemented radC mutants of Dictyostelium discoideum. M.S. Thesis of graduate student, Truman State University.  

Covey, J. F. 1991. Partial complementation of radC mutants of Dictyostelium discoideum with the denV gene. M.S. Thesis of graduate student, Truman State University. 

Zhong (John) Ma (PhD, Penn State University). Gravitational biology (gravitropism, gravity-sensing, and the role of cytoskeleton); plant stress physiology and adaptation to environment; plant mineral nutrition; root biology; biological modeling. 

Ma Z, Hasenstein K. H. 2006 The onset of gravisensitivity in the embryonic root of flax. Plant Physiology 140: 159 – 166. 

Ma, Z., Baskin, T., Brown, K. and Lynch, J. P. 2003. Regulation of root elongation under phosphorus stress involves changes in ethylene responsivness. Plant Physiology 131: 1381 – 1390. 

Chad E. Montgomery (Ph.D. University of Arkansas).  Physiological ecology of reptiles and amphibians; physiological mechanisms for macroecological patterns; energy acquisition and allocation; herpetology. 

Reed, R.N., S.M. Boback, C.E. Montgomery, S. Green, Z. Stephens, and D. Watson. 2007. Ecology and conservation of an exploited insular-endemic population of Boa constrictor (Squamata: Boidae) in the Cayos Cochinos, Honduras. In: Biology of the Boas and Pythons. R.W. Henderson, R. Powell, G.W. Schuett, and M.E. Douglas eds., Eagle Mountain Publishing. 

Beaupre, S.J. and C.E. Montgomery. 2007. The meaning and consequences of foraging mode in snakes. In: The Evolutionary Consequences of Foraging Mode. S. Reilly, L. McBrayer, and D. Miles eds., Cambridge University Press. 

George Schulte (PhD, University of Houston). Membrane transport physiology; steroid receptor biochemistry; aquatic animal physiology. 

Schulte, G. J. and R. R. Mason. 1981. Interaction of O, P'-DDT with the estrogen-binding protein (EBP) of DMBA-induced rat mammary tumors. Research Communications in Chemical Pathology and Pharmacology 33: 119-128.

 George Shinn (PhD, University of Washington). Invertebrate biology; natural history of freshwater invertebrates; electron microscopy. 

Shinn, G. L., L. E. Foster, and A. M. Lohse. 1998. Prey capture and swimming behavior of the arrow worm Parasagitta elegans (Phylum Chaetognatha). American Zoologist 36: 83A.  

Shinn, G. L. 1997. Phylum Chaetognatha. In: Harrison, F. W. and E. E. Ruppert (eds): Microscopic Anatomy of Invertebrates, Vol. 15: Hemichordata, Chaetognatha, and the Invertebrate Chordates, Wiley-Liss, Inc. pp. 103-220. 

Emily (Walker) Smith (PhD, Washington University). Molecular and biochemical analysis of proteins involved in Alzheimer’s disease. 

Walker, E. S., Martinez, M., Brunkan, A. L., and A. Goate. 2005. Presenilin 2 familial Alzheimer’s disease mutations result in partial loss of function and dramatic changes in Abeta 42/40 ratios. Journal of Neurochemistry 92: 294-301. 

Brunkan, A. L., Martinez, M., Walker, E. S., and A. M. Goate. 2005. Presenilin endoproteolysis is an intramolecular cleavage. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience 29: 65-73. 

Lin Twining (PhD, University of Illinois). Parasitology; host/parasite surveys and responses to parasites. 

Timothy Walston (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison). Genetic regulation of development and morphogenesis in C. elegans embryos.

Walston, T., Guo, C., Proenca, R., Wu, M., Herman, M., Hardin, J., Hedgecock, E. 2006. mig-5/Dsh controls cell fate determination and cell migration in C. elegans. Developmental Biology 298:485-497.

Walston, T., Tuskey, C., Edgar, L., Hawkings, N., Ellis, G., Bowerman, B., Wood, W., Hardin, J. 2004. Multiple Wnt signaling pathways converge to orient the mitotic spindle in early C. elegans embryos. Developmental Cell 7: 831-841.     

Anton Weisstein (PhD, Washington University).  Biology education; bioinformatics; population genetics; HIV evolution. 

Templeton, A. R., R. A. Reichert, A. E. Weisstein, X.-F. Yu, and R. B. Markham. 2004. Selection in context: patterns of natural selection in the evolution of the glycoprotein 120 region of HIV-1 in infected individuals followed over time. Genetics 167: 1547-161. 

Spencer, H. G., M. W. Feldman, A. G. Clark, and A. E. Weisstein. 2004. The effect of genetic conflict on   genomic imprinting and modification of expression at a sex-linked locus. Genetics 166: 565-579.