Donaubauer

Donaubauer

Elyse is currently a student at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse. During her internship Klessig lab, Elyse worked under the supervision of her mentor post-doctoral associate Hong-Gu Kang. While at the BTI, Elyse undertook screening of CRT1 mutants and how they...
Conklin

Conklin

The hunt for bon1 suppressors in Arabidopsis thaliana This summer, I worked in the Hua lab under the supervision of Jian Hua and Zhenying Shi. As a BTI intern, I investigated the Arabidopsis BONZAI1 gene, which plays a role in plant growth and regulating R...
Meyers

Meyers

Identification of novel salicylic acid-binding proteins Plants have a multilayered immune response system to protect against attacking pathogens. These layers include pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP)-triggered immunity (PTI) and effector-triggered immunity...
Nowicki

Nowicki

Emily is currently a student at the College of New Jersey. This summer, Emily worked with mentor Stephane Bentolila on investigating the involvement of possible genes in the control of RNA editing ofArabidopsis thaliana. To accomplish this project, Emily used...
Pinto

Pinto

Emily is currently in her Sophomore year at Emory University. During her internship in the Pawlowski lab, Emily worked under the direction of her mentors Gagan Sidhu and Chris Bozza. While in Ithaca , Emily’s work focused on chromosome walking to determine gene...
Flemmig

Flemmig

Emma is a currently a student at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. In the Rose lab Emma worked under the supervision of post-doctoral associate Tal Isaacson. Emma’s project for her internship fine mapping a candidate gene involved in tomato fruit cuticle...
Kelsey

Kelsey

Eric is currently a student at Cornell University after having graduated this spring from Kennebunk High School. Eric worked under the tutelage of his mentor Dr. Mike Scanlon on analyses of narrow sheath duplicate gene evolution in Zea Mays relatives.
Galarneau

Galarneau

Arabidopsis DEAD box RH3 Protein Functions Chloroplast rRNA Biogenesis It was found in a previous study completed in the van Wijk lab (Zybailov et al. 2009) that the RNA DEAD box helicase RH3 was strongly upregulated in a mutated form of the ClpP/R protease. My...
Mattoon

Mattoon

The Role of the ZF2 Gene in Meiotic Recombination This summer, I studied the ZF2 gene in maize, which might be involved in regulating meiotic recombination.  Maize plants that are mutated in this gene were grown in the field. I used PCR and sequencing to reveal they...
Gudmundsson

Gudmundsson

Change in the cell wall polysaccharide landscape throughout tomato fruit development and ripening Project Summary The textural changes exhibited by tomato fruit during ripening involve the action of enzymes that catalyze partial or complete depolymerization and...
Tejada Soto

Tejada Soto

Investigating the cuticle of moss Physcomitrella patens using knock-out genetics and chemical composition analysis in order to understand the evolution of plant cuticle biosynthesis pathway This summer, I had an amazing experience in the Rose Lab working with the moss...
Gomez

Gomez

Deciphering the genetic architecture of aphid-induced callose deposition in Zea mays L. Previous experiments showed that corn leaf aphids (Rhopalosiphum maidis Fitch) feeding on maize (Zea mays L.) inbred line CML322 produce significantly more offspring than aphids...
Whitney

Whitney

Understanding the role of meiosis-specific long intergenic non-coding RNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana Project Summary Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are polyadenylated non protein-coding RNAs that are typically greater than 200 bp long. LncRNAs can be divided into two...
Olsefski

Olsefski

Greg is currently a student in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell. This summer, he worked with mentor Ruairidh Sawers to establish and characterize magnesium chelatase alleles in maize.
Beacham

Beacham

Towards engineering Chlamydomonas reinhardtii for botryococcene synthesis Concerns about climate change and rising prices of petroleum-based fuel have sparked a search for sources of renewable energy. The microalga Botryococcus braunii is a potential source as this...
Edmondson

Edmondson

Identifying Genes Involved in Leaf Polarity in Solanum lycopersicum Project Summary Tomato leaves are dorsiventral, having distinct adaxial (upper/top) and abaxial (lower/bottom) tissue. Because these distinct plant tissues contribute to proper plant function via...
Wight

Wight

De Novo Assembly and Annotation of the Glomus Versiforme Genome Project Summary Glomus versiforme is a species of arbuscular mychorrhizal (AM) fungi. This type of fungus forms a mutualistic relationship with most vascular plants: the fungus colonizes around the root...
De Jong

De Jong

Expressing Aphid Salivary Genes in Nicotiana tabacum to Determine Protein Function The proteins found in aphid saliva are known to mediate plant-aphid interactions. In the Jander Lab, I cloned aphid salivary genes and then transiently expressed them in N. tabacum,...
Powell

Powell

My project involved working with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi which forms symbiosis with most vascular plants. The project focused on looking at expression patterns in genes encoding transcription factors.
Yee

Yee

Harrison is a high school student at the Roy C. Ketchum High School. He worked in the Brutnell lab under the guidance of graduate student Sarah Covshoff looking at expression of the HCF136 gene in mesophyll and bundle sheath cells in maize. For this project, Harrison...
Chau

Chau

Determining the role of a helical repeat protein family in RNA editing in Arabidopsis thaliana Project Summary In order to correct errors that spontaneously occur in their organelle DNA, plants have the ability to engage in a process called RNA editing, in which mRNA...
Richie

Richie

Characterization of CD2 Protein Expression in Tomato Plant epidermal cells provide the interface with the external environment and as such have evolved a range of mechanisms to tolerate stressful environmental factors. A critical example is the cuticle, a...
Bunn

Bunn

Characterizing the diversity of NFR5 in Glycine subgenus Glycine Project Summary Polyploidy, or whole genome duplication, is a widespread phenomenon in plants and has occurred at the base of seed plant and angiosperm lineages. Allopolyploidy combines the effects of...
Ritchards

Ritchards

The Impact of Drought Stress on the Kinetics of Water Intake in Select Project Summary Drought is one of the most notorious stressors that plague our crops. Therefore, it is important to develop plants that are durable and can withstand periods of water stress....
Rodriguez

Rodriguez

Analysis and characterization of conserved non-coding sequences in species of the Legume Family (Fabaceae) Project Summary A character of considerable evolutionary and ecological significance is nodulation, the symbiotic fixation of atmospheric nitrogen by soil...
Robertson

Robertson

Evaluating Arabidopsis thaliana roots as a model system to study catecholamine action in plants Project summary Plant scientists have long puzzled over the presence of catecholamines in plants; compounds including dopamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine that in...
Dyson

Dyson

The effect of novel proteins on RNA editing Project Summary RNA editing is the conversion of particular cytidines (Cs) to uridines (Us) in organelle mRNAs.  It is regulated by the editosome, a complex of several ­trans-factors, which bind to cis-elements upstream of...
Newsome

Newsome

Screening Tomato Protein Kinases for interaction with Pseudomonas syringae effector AvrPto The integral role of protein kinases in signal transduction and initiating immune responses in plants suggests that these signaling molecules could be a target for inactivation...
Daniel

Daniel

Jala is a student at the College of Wooster and is from Ann Arbor, MI. This summer, Jala worked with Bernard Pfeil in the Doyle lab to reconstruct a 1Mb region surrounding a disease resistance gene. From there, the lab will look at the homeologous chromosome to see...
Eaglesham

Eaglesham

Plant-Fungal Symbiosis During this summer, I worked on the symbiotic interaction between Medicago truncatula and glomeromycotan fungi. My project was focused on the study of nutrient transporters present in root cell colonized by these mycorrhizal fungi. Therefore, I...
Mercado

Mercado

I learned several lab techniques including running Western Blots, PCR, cloning genes of interest into agrobacterium for tobacco infiltration N-glycosylation is one of the most complex post-translational modifications in proteins. The N-glycoproteins are involved in...
Peng

Peng

Tracing Gene Expression amongst Constituent Cell Types in the Pericarp of Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) Project Summary The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), is a universally preeminent basis for fruit study and research and is an important component of the human diet....
Mullings

Mullings

Multi gene analysis tool for Virus Induced Gene Silencing Project Summary Virus Induced Gene Silencing (VIGS) is a very useful method of studying gene function in plants.  For this method to be effectively employed, the target gene fragment introduced into the virus...
Reeger

Reeger

Transient expression of cyanobacterial b-carboxysome proteins in Nicotiana to study protein assembly β-carboxysomes, a type of microcompartment present in most photosynthetic cyanobacteria, concentrates CO2 near Rubisco inside a protein shell to improve carbon...
Parker

Parker

Jennifer is currently a student at North Carolina State University. She worked in the Brutnell lab with post-doctoral associate, Tesfamichal Kebrom on The role of ABA in the regulation of axillary shoot development by light signals and defoliation. During her summer...
Lo

Lo

Transcriptome profiling of susceptible and resistant watermelon cultivar response to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. Niveum Watermelon is an important crop worldwide; by yield, it is the fifth most harvested vegetable and most harvested fruit. However, the fungal pathogen...
Handy

Handy

Jerrod is currently a student at the Milton Hershey School in Hershey, PA, where he is actively involved in tissue propagation and culturing through his teacher, Dr. Nagarajan. During his internship here, Jerrod worked with research associate, Denise Costich to...

Seamon

Jesse is currently a senior at the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies in Redlands, CA. During this past summer, Jesse worked in the Kochian lab with mentor Matt Milner. Jesse”s work was involved in the molecular investigation of Cadmium Uptake and Sequestration...
Diaz

Diaz

Jessica is a student at California State University . In the Giovannoni lab, Jessica’s summer internship focused on identify gene promoters that will switch on during mid to late stages of the ripening process using standard molecular techniques such as DNA...
Jeffrey

Jeffrey

GenBank Update Solgenomics has been working on sequencing the tomato genome for some time now. The reference genome created can be found in GenBank where it was submitted for other researchers to access. GenBank is an on-line public repository of genome sequences run...
Lovejoy

Lovejoy

Development of an eQTL database depicting SNP and expressional data analysis tools for tomato A database was constructed to illustrate the RNA-seq data analyzed from the introgression lines parented by the domesticated tomato Solanum lycopersicum and the wild-type...
Orozco

Orozco

Characterizing the sherry mutant in Solanum lycopersicum (cv. Canary Export) For my summer internship project, I worked on characterizing the sherry mutant in solanum lycopersicum cv. Canary Export. For this project we wanted to learn more about the sherry mutant,...
Rounseville

Rounseville

Jessica is currently a student at Newark Valley High School. In the Brutnell lab, she worked with technician Kevin Ahern (who, incidentally, went to high school with Jessica’s parents!) on the Ac project, cloning specific lines of maize and scoring for new phenotypes....
Smith

Smith

Vivian is a currently a student at Alcorn State University in Mississippi. In the Rose lab Vivian worked under the supervision of post-doctoral associate Tal Isaacson. Vivian’s project for her internship focused on mapping candidate genes associated with tomato fruit...
Debbie

Debbie

Variation in the FLS3 gene Project Summary Plants can detect foreign organisms by using pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) like Flagellin-Sensing 2 (FLS2). Located outside the plant cell, FLS2 is able to detect the microbe-associated molecular pattern (MAMP) flg22...
Schafer

Schafer

Finding genes involved with biogenesis of Rubisco through the process of forward genetics in Setaria viridis and reverse genetics in Arabidopsis thaliana Project Summary Due to present day high atmospheric concentrations of O2, the enzyme Rubisco is inefficient in...
Walden

Walden

John is currently a student at Colby College in Maine. Working with mentors Luis Maas and Jenny Kimbal, John’s research was focused on using the genetic diversity of wild relatives of cultivated rice. During the summer John learned lab techniques including acrylamide...
Freschi

Freschi

Fine tuning of the Solanum lycopersicoides introgression population and carotenoid analysis of selected lines. The tomato fruit is one of the most consumed vegetables in the world, however its nutritional values has decreased in the past decades as an undesirable...