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
Anna Whitfield	Plant Virology	Samantha Wisely	Conservation Genetics of Mammals