Joshua Evans
By Heather Willard
PACE Writer Environmental and Plant Biology
Dr. Morgan Vis, Professor and Chair of Environmental & Plant Biology, and two of her graduate students, Emily Keil and Joshua Evans, traveled to John Carroll University in Cleveland for the 70th annual meeting of the Phycological Society of America this summer.
Vis is a past president of PSA and was one of the members of the organizing committee for this year’s conference. PSA primarily focuses on the research and advancement of the study of algae.
Keil and Evans both presented at the conference. Keil presented her M.S. thesis research titled “Does phosphorus limitation affect biofilms in AMD and remediated streams?” Stream reclamation is important in Southeast Ohio due to acid drainage pollution from old abandoned coal mines.
Evans, an M.S. student, presented a poster on the chloroplast genome of a rare freshwater red alga. “A chloroplast is a site of photosynthesis in cells and it has some its own DNA separate from the nuclear genome,” Evans said. “The conference itself is a great place to meet people for future collaborations and to present your research.”
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