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.
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Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) Track-2 North East Water Resources Network (NEWRnet) “This material is based upon work supported in (full or part) by the National Science Foundation EPSCoR Track II Cooperative Agreement Award #1330406.” “This material is based upon work conducted at a Rhode Island NSF EPSCoR research facility [specify Marine Life Science Center, Genomics […]
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Janis V. Hall Biology, Rhode Island College Advisor: Breea Govenar Research: The effects of metal pollution and ocean acidification on the reproductive and larval biology of the ribbed mussels. Janis writes about her research work in Winter 2014 issue of The Current, page 4 Rebecca Helm Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University Advisor: Casey Dunn […]
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Abigail Bockus Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Rhode Island Advisor: Brad Seibel Research: Determining the relationship between TMAO concentration and lipid accumulation in teleost and elasmobranch fishes Tara Fresques Developmental Biology, Brown University Advisor: Gary Wessel Research: Animal reproduction; using the sea star, Patiria miniata, to investigate how embryonic signals contribute to egg and sperm specification. […]
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John Urban Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry, Brown University Advisor: Susan Gerbi Catriona Munro Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University Advisor: Casey Dunn Matthew Mulcahy Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology, Brown University Advisor: Edward Hawrot Research: Identifying proteins which interact with α7-nicotinic acetylcholine receptors to better understand the signaling pathways of the receptor and its […]
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