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Dr. Sarah Wyatt, Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, presented a talk on “Arabidopsis proteomic responses to microgravity” as part of the GeneLab symposium at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research. Wyatt is recognized as an expert in gravitational and space biology. Using […]

Dr. Juliana De Paula Souza of Federal University of São João del-Rei in Brazil has named a new species of Latin American violet—Anchietea ballardii—after Dr. Harvey Ballard, Associate Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology at Ohio University. “Juliana first visited my lab, for two months in spring and summer 2008 […]

Dr. Philip Cantino, Professor Emeritus of Environmental & Plant Biology, co-authored an article on “A large-scale chloroplast phylogeny of the Lamiaceae sheds new light on its subfamilial classification” in Scientific Reports on Oct. 17. His co-authors are Bo Li of Jiangxi Agricultural University; Richard G. Olmstead of the University of […]

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 […]

By Heather Willard PACE Writer Environmental and Plant Biology Dr. Elizabeth Hermsen, Assistant Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, braved freezing temperatures to go to two conferences last May—the Midcontinent Paleobotanical Colloquium and the Paleontological Research Institution Summer Symposium. She studies fossil water clovers of the genus Marsileaceae, reassessing the […]

Dr. David Rosenthal, Assistant Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, co-authored an article on “Intensifying drought eliminates the expected benefits of elevated carbon dioxide for soybean.” The article appeared Sept. 5 in Nature Plants. Abstract: Stimulation of C3 crop yield by rising concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide ([CO2]) is widely […]

Dr. Sarah Wyatt, Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, is one of five faculty members named the 2016 Ohio University Presidential Research Scholars for excellence in the areas of life and biomedical sciences and arts and humanities. James Thomas, professor of physical therapy; Nancy Stevens, professor of biomedical sciences; Michele […]