Member Institutions:

Scientists

Bowling Green State University

Cleveland State University

  • Harry van Keulen. Molecular Biology of cold response/cold acclimation and rootstock-scion interaction in grapevines. Gene structure, transcription regulation and carbohydrate metabolism of the protozoan parasite Giardia lamblia.
  • Donald Lindmark. Microbiology, biochemistry and physiology of yeasts in the wine industry. Protozoan cell biology.
  • Tarun Mal, Weed biology, effect of invasive species and transgenic crops on the ecosystem

Kent State University

  • Chris Carlson, Director of the horticulture program, Kent Salem campus
  • Kim Finer, Microbiologist at Kent regional campus
  • Shirley Graham, Higher plant systematist, specialist in Lythraceae, including purple loosestrife (Lythrum), crape myrtle, (Lagerstroemia), Cuphea (oil-seed genus), henna (Lawsonia), Heimia (alkaloid-bearing hallucenogenic genus), Ammannia (invasive in rice fields globally)
  • Robert Heath, Director of the Water Resources Research Institute at Kent State, possible collaboration on topics of plant-microbe interactions in freshwater environments
  • Andrea E. Schwarzbach, Assistant Professor and Curator of the Herbarium at Kent State
  • Christopher Woolverton, Bacterial-host interactions; cellular and molecular responses to inflammatory bacterial products; physiological responses to bacterial disease, novel antimicrobial therapies

Miami University

  • Susan Barnum, Molecular biology and evolution of cyanobacteria, molecular evolution of nitrogen fixation genes and molecular response to stress
  • Alan Cady, Predatory arthropods as bicontrol agents in row crop agriculture
  • Richard Edelmann, Electron microscopy, cellular ultrastructure and mycology
  • David Francko, Physiological limnology and wetland ecology; horticulture/selection of cold-hardy palms and other warm-temperate plants
  • Daniel Gladish, Development of root systems, environmental effects on development (especially in roots) and woodwind instrument reeds
  • Jan Jaworski, Biotechnological development of modifies vegetable oils
  • Carolyn Howes Keiffer, Plant physiological ecology, halophyte biology restoration ecology and phytoremediation
  • John Kiss, Cell biology, Gravitropism in higher and lower plants, space biology, phototropism, ultrastructure and cryotechniques in electron microscopy
  • Christopher Makaroff, Microsporagenesis in Arabidopsis and application to agricultural plants
  • Robert E. Minto, Structural and Mechanistic Investigations of Desaturating Enzymes
  • Nicholas Money, Physiology of fungal growth, reproduction and pathogenesis
  • Nancy Smith-Huerta
  • Mark Strefer, molecular genetics of crop plants and aquatic nuisance flora
  • Linda E. Watson, Plant systematics and evolution, specification, molecular systematics, phylogenetics and genetic diversity of rare species
  • Kenneth Wilson, Plant molecular biology; evolution of introns; tissue culture of medicinal plants
  • Christopher Wood, Plant molecular biology and microgravity responses, especially in Arabidopsis

The Ohio State University 

  • Greg Armstrong, Plant Biology, plant development and gene expression, pigment biosynthesis; photosynthesis
  • W. Dietz Bauer, Horticulture and crop science, plant-bacteria interactions
  • David Bisaro, Molecular genetics, molecular basis of virus-plant host and virus-insect vector interactions
  • Enrico Bonello, Plant Pathology, molecular mechanisms of disease
  • Dave Coplin, Plant pathology, molecular genetics of plant pathogenic bacteria
  • Anne Dorrance, Plant pathology, soybean diseases
  • John Finer, Horticulture and crop science (Wooster), plant genetic engineering
  • David Francis, Horticulture and crop science (Wooster), tomato genetics and marker assisted breeding
  • Marie Alda Gilles-Gonzalez, Biochemistry, oxygen sensing and nitrogen fixation
  • Venkat Gopalan, structure and mechanism of action of ribonuclease P, a catalytic ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complex and use of plant RNase P to inhibit gene expression.
  • Don Gordon, Plant Pathology (Wooster), identification and control of viruses infecting maize
  • Madge Graham, Plant pathology, regulation and expression of signaling components in soybean disease resistance
  • Terrence Graham, Plant pathology, molecular plant-microbe interactions, disease resistance
  • Erich Grotewold, Plant biology, regulation of gene expression and plant metabolic engineering
  • Saskia Hogenhout, Entomology, molecular basis of the interaction between plant pathogens and their insect vectors, particularly corn pests
  • Jyan-Chyun Jang, Horticulture and Crop Science, regulation of growth and development
  • Sophien Kamoun, Plant pathology (Wooster), Molecular plant-microbe interactions
  • Iris Meier, Plant Biology, organ-specific gene expression in plants, structure and function of the plant nuclear matrix, improvement of transgene expression in plants
  • Jim Metzger, Horticulture and crop science, environmental control of flowering
  • Tea Meulia, Head of the OARDC Molecular and Cellular Imaging Center, research interests include MDMV pathogenesis and mechanisms of host resistance at a molecular level
  • Ray Miller, Horticulture and crop science (Wooster), secondary metabolism
  • Sally Miller, Plant pathology (Wooster), plant pathology and pathogen diagnostics
  • Richard Pratt, Horticulture and crop science (Wooster), maize disease resistance and value-added grain quality traits
  • Margaret Redinbaugh, Plant pathology, molecular bases of plant resistance and tolerance to viruses
  • Fred Sack, Plant biology, plant cell and development biology
  • Richard Sayre, Plant biology, photosynthesis, bioremediation and metabolic engineering of plants
  • Randy Scholl, Plant biology, plant genetics and genomics
  • David Somers, Plant biology, molecular genetic analysis of the circadian clock and its regulation in plants
  • Eric Stockinger, Horticulture and crop science, molecular bases of crop stress resistance
  • Robert Tabita, Microbiology, regulation of carbon and nitrogen metabolism
  • DeshPal Verma, Molecular genetics, stress tolerance and nitrogen assimilation
  • Guo-Liang Wang, Plant pathology, plant genomics and map-based cloning, disease resistance in rice

Ohio University

  • Harvey E. Ballard, Jr., Systematics and evolution 
  • Ahmed Faik, Plant cell wall biochemistry
  •  Marcia J. Kieliszewski, The hydroxyproline-rich structural glycoproteins of the plant cell wall: structure, function, and glycoprotein design 
  • Brian C. McCarthy, Forest ecology, community dynamics, invasive species biology, restoration ecology 
  • Allan M. Showalter, Molecular biology and biochemistry of plant cell wall proteins; including industrial and nanotechnology applications of cell wall proteins and their genes
  • Arthur T. Trese, Molecular plant-microbe interactions
  • Morgan L. Vis, Phycology
  • Sarah E. Wyatt, Plant growth and development with an emphasis on the use of molecular and genetic tools to study plant responses to environmental stimuli


    University of Cincinnati
  • John L. Caruso; Isolation of carnosic acid from in vitro grown herbs, role of auxin in expression of the lanceolate gene in tomato, use of plant tissue culture in teaching
  • Susan A. Dunford; phloem and xylem transport in higher plants and plant water relations
  • Steven H. Rogstad; Plant systematics, ecology and evolution: DNA-based analyses of population genetics and phylogenetic relationships, tropical rain forest biology. Member, OPBC Steering Committee.
  • G. Douglas Winget; isolation of chloroplasts capable of photophosphorylation from various moss and fern plants, proton pumping ATPase of moss and fern chloroplasts, various ways of "activating" before or during isolation of the complete FoF1 -ATPase complex from spinach chloroplasts, and sensitive, non-radioisotopic assays for phosphate and phosphate containing compounds.

University of Toledo

  • Stephen Goldman, Transformation and the regulation of plant fertility
  • John Gray, Programmed cell death
  • Scott Leisner, Viral movement and disease resistance mechanisms
  • Deborah Neher, Plant-soil community interactions
  • Robert Sinsabaugh, Soil microbial activity

Wright State University 

Youngstown State University

 


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