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Faculty Mentors |
Faculty mentors. 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 in biology at Kansas State University. 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 >200 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 Biological Station, and the associated Konza Prairie 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.
| Ecological Genomics | Organismal Biology | Ecosystem Science | |||
| Karen Garrett | Plant Disease Ecology |
Carolyn Ferguson |
Plant Systematics | Sarah Baer | Restoration Ecology |
| Mike Herman |
Ecological Genomics of Nematodes |
Keith Gido |
Fish Ecology | John Blair | Ecosystem Ecology |
| Ted Morgan |
Evolutionary Genomics of Drosophila |
David Hartnett |
Plant Population Biology |
John Briggs | Dynamics of Woody Plants |
| Loretta Johnson | Plant Ecological Genomics | David Haukos | Avian and Wetland Ecology | Joe Craine |
Function of Nutrient-Limited Ecosystems |
| Ari Jumpponen |
Ecology of Soil Microbes and Fungi |
Eva Horne |
Behavioral Ecology of Herpetofauna |
Walter Dodds | Aquatic Ecology |
| Jeremy Marshall |
Evolutionary and Behavioral Ecology of Insects |
Tony Joern | Grazing Ecology | Richard Jeannotte |
Soil Ecology and Lipidomics |
| Chris Toomajian |
Population Genetics of Plants |
Martha Mather | Fisheries Ecology | Kendra McLauchlin |
Environmental Geography |
| Mark Ungerer |
Ecological Genomics of Plants |
Brett Sandercock |
Population and Behavioral Ecology of Birds |
Jesse Nippert | Plant Ecophysiology |
| Ruth Welti |
Lipidomics: Studying Metabolites with Mass Spectrometry |
Bruce Snyder |
Ecology of Soil Invertebrates |
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| Anna Whitfield | Plant Virology |
Samantha Wisely
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Conservation Genetics of Mammals |
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Last updated: January 2011