Student participants in the Swarthout lab (2002-2006)

 

 

Jennie Yamaoka (Summer 2002-2003, currently a Research Lab technician at the University of Michigan) Samara Webb (Summer 2002, currently at Wayne State Medical School) Jason Courter (Summer 2002, Taylor University, currently a Sec. Ed. Teacher in Virginia)
Denae Torpey (Summer 2004, currently at University of Des Moines Medical school) Mark Thomson (Summer 2004, currently working) John Pennisi , Secondary Ed. teacher at Washington College, Maryland.
Stephanie Judd (Summers of 2004 and 2005, currently at Wayne State Medical School) David Gonthier (Summers of 2004 and 2005, Senior Student, Hope College - Currently looking at graduate programs) Emily Harper (Summers of 2004 and 2005, Current Senior Student, Hope College, looking at graduate programs)

Timothy Stowe worked in our lab as a research technician for one month during April and May 2004. Timothy contirubuted to my lab by setting up protocols for the immunoblot technique that we use to determine whether the fungus is present or not in our grasses. He also set up the procedures to run western blots for Rubisco and PEP carboxylase enzymes in our grasses.

Robert Bode (Fall of 2004, currently in a Ph.D. program at Cornell University)   Natalie Grand, current junior at Hope College, working on the uptake kinetics of NH4 and NO3 in endophytic tall fescue grasses
Rebekah Shyne worked in my lab during the fall of 2005 where she helped set up the protocol for measuring in vitro activities of Rubisco using a spectrophotometric technique. She is currently teaching in Hondurus.

Nick Marra, current junior at Hope College, working on the effect of aphids on stomatal conductance and loline synthesis in tall fescue.

Laura Thomas, current senior at St. Thomas University, Miami. Worked on the uptake of glycine and glutamic acid in endophytic tall fescue in the summer of 2006.