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Alford Karen Persons  Ph.D.
Geological and Ichthyological Investigations into Palaeodrainage Hypotheses for the Tennessee River.
Tharangamala Samarakoon  Ph.D. Taxonomic revision of Samydaceae in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka 
C. Liliana Hernández  Ph.D. Species delimitation and phylogenetics of Central American Rhamdia (Teleostei: Pimelodidae) 

Beckett
Zack Roth
M.S.
   

Biesiot

 

 

 

 

Anderson Laura C.
M.S. Indicators of male reproductive potential and factors influencing female mate choice in Alpheus heterochaelis, the bigclaw snapping shrimp  
Mraz Jennifer
M.S. Burrowing behavior based on food availability in the Gulf coast fiddler crab, Uca panacea 

Curry

 

Anthony Witcher
Ph.D. Artificial potting material for horticulture

Carrie Witcher  M.S Splitting in blueberry fruit 
Allison Duckworth
M.S. Cooperative learningstrategies for online and traditional classes

Davis

 

Danielle Cotton M.S. A vascular floristic inventory of the Lake Thoreau Center for Environmental Education and Research in Lamar and Forrest Counties, Mississippi.
Jeremiah Estes Ph.D. The effects of rising atmospheric CO2 on forest arthropod diversity
Monica H. Moss Watkins Ph.D.  

Diehl
Jaci Smolinsky M.S.
 

Elasri 

 

 
Ph.D.
Regulation of endocarditis virulence factors by quorum sensing in Staphylococcus aureus
Tanwir Habib Ph.D. Reverse Engineering of Gene Regulatory Network (GRN) from time-series expression in toxicogenomics data and/or cancer data
Arun Rawat M.S. Annotation and network modeling of toxicogenomics data
     

Ellender 

 

 
Woods Jacqueline
Ph.D.
Ph.D.
Development of real time and conventional pcr protocols for microbial source tracking.

Guo 
Suja Rajan
Ph.D. p38 MAP kinases in endothelial cells and stem cells
Samjjwal Chakraborty Ph.D. Oncogenic stress in embryonic stem cells 
Ruoxing Wang Ph.D.  
     

Howell Sabrina Cummings M.S. Chironomids on the Camp Shelby Training Facility 

Jawor 
Aaron Holbrook
Ph.D. Stress and adverse maternal effects in gopher tortoises
Caitlin Winters
M.S. Female ornaments as seen by multiple receivers in northern cardinals
Susan DeVries Ph.D. Hormone-behavior trade offs in female northern cardinals
     

Karim

 

 

  
Parul Singh
M.S. 
Genome-wide RNAi screen to dissect vector-host interaction (if available/decided upon)
Kezia R. Arasavalli M.S.
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Kim
Adhiraj Roy
Ph.D.
Satya Avva
P.hD.

Kreiser

 

 

Ph.D.
 
The biogeography and systematics of the freshwater fishes of Honduras. 
Josh Ennen Ph.D.
 
Conservation genetics of gopher tortoises and the systematics of some species of freshwater turtles in the genus /Graptemys/.

Kuehn
Su Rong Ph.D. Fungal Dynamics Associated with Plant Decomposition and Nutrient Cycling in Freshwater Wetlands 

Leal

McLean

 

 

  
Helen Namataka
M.S. 
Characterizing novel transcripts in Karenia brevis (if available/decided upon)
David Jayroe  M.S. 
Adapting microarrays to assess genetic diversity in populations of Karenia brevis (if available/decided upon)
 

Middlebrooks

Moore  

 

 

 

 

 

 
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Ph.D.
Ph.D.
Ph.D.
Ph.D.
Michael Sellers  M.S.  
Emily Lain  M.S.  
T J Zenzel  M.S.  

Pessoney  Ph.D.
 

Qualls 

 

 

 

M.S.
Seasonal changes in steroid hormone levels in three populations of yellow blotched sawback turtles (Graptemys flavimaculata) within the Pascagoula River basin.

Schaefer 
 
 

 

Ph.D. Status and viability of Alabama shad (Alosa alabamae) in the Pascagoula basin
M.S.
Competition and resource use among ecologically-similar fish species in south Mississippi.
Scott Clark  M.S.   
Charles Champagne
M.S. Ontogenentic diet shifts and competitive interactions among species in the Fundulus notatus species complex.
Melissa Gutierrez
M.S.
 

Shearer 

 

Ph.D.
Suppression of dimoprhism-regulated genes in Histoplasma by RNAi
Ph.D.
Isolation and characterization of the mold specific gene M46 in the dimorphic pathogenic fungus Histoplasma capsulatum
Keerthy Chandrasekar  Ph.D.  Yeast/mold dimorphism in the pathogenic fungus Histoplasma capsulatum 

Wang  

 

 
Diane Coughlin
M.S.
 
 
Xunyan Ye
Ph.D.
 
 


Yee  

 

 
David Allgood
M.S.
 
Ecology of container mosquito communities
Kris Pitcher
M.S
 
Ecology of predaceous diving beetles (Dytiscidae)

 


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