Browse the research interests of past REU mentors below. Click on their names to get a more detailed description of their research! To look at past research projects by REU students, check out the document here.
Department: Biology
Research: Plant Ecology, Ecological Restoration, Sustainable Agriculture, Plant-Microbe Interactions
Department: Biology
Research: Phylogeography and Evolution Of Aquatic Invertebrates, Biodiversity And Conservation Of Imperiled Aquatic Organisms Especially Freshwater Mussels And Desert Spring Invertebrates, Molecular Ecology, Conservation Of Aquatic Invertebrates
Department: Microbiology
Research: Ammonia-oxidizing Bacteria and Archaea and their role in freshwater environments, Culturing the “unculturables” and investigating the physiology of selected isolates.
Department: Biology
Research: Conservation Biology, Amphibian Biology, Ecotoxicology, Disease Ecology, Science Communication, Land-Use Impacts, Amphibian Conservation, Experimental Ecology, Invasive Species, Pathogens, Multiple Stressors
Department: Microbiology
Research: Anaerobic One-Carbon Metabolism In Methanogens And Gram-Positive Bacteria
Department: Biology
Research: Population Ecology, Community Ecology, Plant-Herbivore Interactions, Invasive Plant Species
Department: Biology
Research: Molecular Ecology, Invasion Biology, Population Genetics, Rapid Evolution, Ornithology
Department: Biology
Research: Evolutionary Ecology, Plant-Insect Interactions, Plant-Defensive Strategies, Insect Behavior, Biodiversity
Department: Biology
Research: Population Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Ecological Modeling
Department: Geography
Research: Cascading Effects of Climate Change, Reimagining GIS Education
Department: Microbiology
Research: Comparative Biochemistry, Physiological Genomics, Adaptational Physiology
Department: Biology
Research: Limnology, Nutrient Fluxes, Phytoplankton Ecology, Lake Ecosystem Function, Community Ecology, Ecosystem Ecology
Department: Geology and Environmental Earth Science
Research: Environmental and Economic Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Environmental Metal Pollution, Toxic Minerals in Natural Industrial Materials
Department: Cell, Molecular, and Structural Biology
Research: Insect Evolution, Plant Evolution, Polyploidy, Botany, Evolutionary Genomics, Bioinformatics.
Department: Biology
Research: Disease Ecology, Endocrinology, Immunology, Animal Behavior, Microbiology, Nutritional Ecology
Department: Biology
Research: Plant Evolutionary Genetics And Genomics, Evolution Of Sex Chromosomes, Plant Population Genetics, Plant Domestication, Lead Department Advisor
Department: Microbiology
Research: Photobiology Of Extreme Environments, Biofuels, Extremophillic Microbes, Cold Adaptation, Photobiology And Ecophysiology
Department: Biology
Research: Zebrafish Developmental Biology And Genetics, Cardiovascular Development, Organogenesis, Tissue Morphogenesis, Cardiac Cell Differentiation