Melissa Burger
Degree: Ph.D., Ecology and Ecosystem Sciences specialization, within the Biological and Environmental Sciences department.
Advisor: Laura Meyerson
Expected completion: May 2017
Research: My research examines genome size variation in an invasive grass across North America. I’m particularly interested in how this genome size variation may cause certain plants to be favored under climate change.
Rhode Island EPSCoR is funded by the National Science Foundation under EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Award #OIA-1655221 (Sept. 2017-Aug. 2022). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.