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Faculty Mentors |
Faculty mentors. Twenty-six faculty affiliated with the Departments of Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology at Kansas State University are available to serve as mentors for students in the REU program at Konza Prairie Biological Station. The pool of prospective mentors includes beginning investigators who are developing new research projects, and senior scientists with well-established programs. All mentors have considerable experience supervising research projects by REU students and have directed study projects by undergraduate students working for research credit during the academic year. In total, the faculty members below have advised more than 100 REU students supported by REU Site Grants, REU Supplemental Grants or the early University Research Program (URP). The research interests of this group are broad and span a diverse range of ecological and evolutionary disciplines. The faculty are an unusually cohesive unit because of their common ties to the Ecological Genomics Institute, research at Konza Prairie and the associated LTER program. REU students will be given access to the research equipment and project vehicles of the faculty members who serve as their mentors. In the past, many faculty have also maintained an open door policy and have shared equipment with REU students working with other investigators.
The Application Form requires that applicants list three mentors that they would be interested in working with. Please review the areas of research and websites below and select three possible mentors from the list below. Please note that a few faculty may be unavailable each year because they are traveling for field work or are on sabbatical leave.
| Ecosystem Science | Invertebrate Biology | ||
| John Blair | Ecosystem Ecology | Susan Brown | Developmental Biology of Flour Beetles (Tribolium) |
| Joe Craine | Function of Nutrient-Limited Ecosystems | Mike Herman |
Ecological Genomics of Nematodes |
| Walter Dodds | Aquatic Ecology | Tony Joern | Grazing Ecology of Grasshoppers |
| Richard Jeannotte |
Soil Ecology and Lipidomics |
David Margolies | Arthropod Ecology and Behavioral Genetics |
| Loretta Johnson | Nutrient Dynamics | Jeremy Marshall |
Evolutionary and Behavioral Ecology of Insects |
| Ari Jumpponen | Ecology of Fungi | Ted Morgan |
Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics |
| Ruth Welti |
Lipidomics: Studying Metabolites with Mass Spectrometry |
Gregory Zolnerowich | Systematic Entomology |
| Plant Biology | Vertebrate Biology | ||
| Eduard Akhunov | Wheat Genomics | Keith Gido | Ecology of Fishes |
| Carolyn Ferguson | Plant Systematics | Eva Horne |
Behavioral Ecology of Reptiles |
| Karen Garrett | Plant Disease Ecology | Tim Parker |
Behavioral Ecology and Avian Vocalizations |
| Kendra McLauchlin |
Environmental Geography |
Craig Paukert | Fisheries Science |
| Jesse Nippert | Plant Ecophysiology | Brett Sandercock |
Population and Behavioral Ecology of Birds |
| Mark Ungerer |
Ecological Genomics of Plants |
Samantha Wisely |
Conservation Genetics of Mammals |
| Anna Whitfield | Plant Virology | ||
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Last updated: December 2008