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Environmental & Plant Biology
Mailing address: Porter 315

Environmental & Plant Biology Graduate Research

Harlan Svoboda conducts systematics research in Dr. Harvey Ballard’s lab.
Harlan Svoboda conducts systematics research in Dr. Harvey Ballard’s lab.

Recent Graduate Research and Conference Presentations

Presentations at National and Regional Meetings

Botanical Society of America 2014, Botanical Society of America, Boise, ID, Investigation and cladistic analysis of morphological characters in Tovomita (Clusiaceae), Gahagen, B. (Presenter & Author), Tomaz, E. (Author Only), Ballard, Jr., H. E. (Author Only), Accepted. (July 2014).

Botanical Society of America 2014, Botanical Society of America, Boise, ID, Preliminary Analysis of the Viola pedatifida Group and Evidence for a New Endemic Species, Zumwalde, B. A. (Presenter & Author), Ballard, Jr., H. E., Accepted. (July 2014).

Botanical Society of America 2014, Botanical Society of America, Boise, ID, Preliminary

Micromorphological Investigations Toward a Systematic Revison of Passiflora L. Sect. Dysosmia DC., Svoboda, H. (Presenter & Author), Ballard, Jr., H. E. (Author Only), Accepted. (July 2014).

American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) Midwestern Section Meeting, Columbus, OH (USA), Characterization of a xylan synthase complex (XSC) from bread wheat, Jiang, N. (Presenter & Author), Held, M. (Author Only), Faik, A. (Author Only), Accepted. (March 22, 2014).

Holmes, Marion A. (Presenter & Author), Matlack, Glenn R (Author Only), Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, "Impacts of past agricultural land use on forest herb community composition and dynamics," Ecological Society of America, Sacramento, California. (August 2014).

Niederhauser, Eric C. (Presenter & Author), Matlack, Glenn R (Author Only), Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, "The secondary dispersal of forest herb seeds in raccoon feces.," Ecological Society of America, Sacramento, California. (August 2014).

The American Chestnut Foundation Annual Meeting, The American Chestnut Foundation, Front Royal, VA, ?Assessment of pure American chestnut (Castanea dentata) and hybrid chestnut seed, growth, and leaf traits in order to facilitate restoration?, Schurr, H. R. (Graduate Student, Presenter & Author), Rosenthal, D. M. (Author Only), Accepted. (October 17, 2014).

American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) annual meeting, Portland, OR (USA), Two Hydroxyproline Galactosyltransferases, GALT5 and GALT2, are Essential for Arabinogalactan- Protein Glycosylation and Development in Arabidopsis, Basu, D. (Presenter & Author), Wang, W. (Author Only), Showalter, A. M. (Author Only), Invited. (July 12, 2014).

Midwestern Section American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) annual meeting, Columbus, OH (USA), Two Hydroxyproline Galactosyltransferases, GALT5 and GALT2, are Essential for Arabinogalactan-Protein Glycosylation and Development in Arabidopsis, Basu, D. (Presenter & Author), Wang, W. (Author Only), Showalter, A. M. (Author Only), Accepted. (March 22, 2014).

Joint Aquatic Science Meeting, Portland OR, Biofilm strcutre and function as tools for stream remediation assessment., Drerup, S. (Presenter & Author), Johnson, K. S. (Author Only), Vis, M. (Author Only). (May 2014).

Northeast Algal Symposium, Newport RI, Acid mine drainage remediation assessment using biofilm structure and function, Drerup, S. (Presenter & Author), Vis, M. (Author Only). (April 26, 2014).

Plant Biology 2014, American Society of Plant Biologists, Portland, OR, "Identification of the gene defective in gravity persistence signal (gps) 6 of Arabidopsis thaliana, Hayden, M. (Presenter & Author), Hall, Z. (Author Only), Osika, M. (Author Only), Wyatt, S. E. (Presenter & Author). (July 2014).

American Society of Plant Biologists - MidWest Sectional, ASPB MW, Columbus, OH, Preparing for a spaceflight: Definition Phase, Basu, P. (Presenter & Author), Hayden, M. (Presenter & Author), Wyatt, S. E. (March 2014).

Publications:

Journal Article, Academic Journal, Published, Varied phenologies of Batrachospermum gelatinosum gametophytes (Batrachospermales, Rhodophyta) in two low-order streams, Drerup, S. A., Vis, M., Fottea, 2014, 14, 121-127.

Journal Article, Academic Journal, Published, Roles of benthic algae in the structure, function, and assessment of stream ecosystems affected by acid mine drainage, Smucker, N. J., Drerup, S. A., Vis, M., Journal of Phycology, 2014, 50, 425-436.