Grad students mentor undergrads September 18th, 2015
BUDS (Bolstering Undergraduate Development and Success), created by graduate students in Botany and Plant Pathology to mentor undergraduates and strengthen academic excellence.
Category: Botany and Plant Pathology
Doctoral students are recognized for Noteworthy Advance in Bioinformatics September 18th, 2015
Zhian Kamvar and Javier Tabima (Botany and Plant Pathology) were featured in PeerJ for their novel statistical software to analyze data on clonal populations of microbes, fungi, and oomcyetes.
http://bpp.oregonstate.edu/content/one-top-bioinformatics-articles-peerj
Pankaj Jaiswal databases plant genomes September 18th, 2015
With NSF funding and international co-investigators, Pankaj Jaiswal is developing a common semantic framework for the ever-expanding array of sequenced plant genomes and phenotype data, called the Planteome Project.
NASA Backs OSU Researcher July 28th, 2015
Michael Behrenfeld will lead a NASA-funded research project investigating phytoplankton blooms—the foundation of the marine food web. He will test the idea that warming oceans will have previously-unforeseen impacts on marine ecosystems.
Bilingual education strengthens agricultural industry workforce July 28th, 2015
Plant pathologist Luisa Santamaria teaches plant disease prevention to agricultural workers. Since 2011, Santamaria has reached about 500 Spanish-speaking workers from 25 nurseries through a grant awarded by the USDA and NIFA, helping to keep Oregon’s $745m nursery industry healthy.
http://oregonprogress.oregonstate.edu/summer-2015/growing-educated-workforce