Morgan's grad students rave about her, her work, her lab environment, etc. If you are
interested in this topic, she's a great advisor to work for.
Susan
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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:11:06 -0500
From: Morgan Vis <vis-chia at oak.cats.ohiou.edu>
Reply-To: vis-chia at oak.cats.ohiou.edu
Subject: graduate students wanted
Seeking students interested in pursuing graduate degrees (MS or PhD) in the
research areas of Systematics & Biogeography or Algae as Biological
Indicators of Acid Mine Drainage. In Fall 2004, I plan to take 2 or 3 new
graduate students into my laboratory.
At present I have NSF funding to study the systematics and biogeography of
the Batrachospermales (freshwater Rhodophyta). Students would be funded
each year with 1/2 research assistantship and 1/2 teaching
assistantship. There are collecting trips planned to the Southern
Hemisphere in which students will be encouraged to participate. The
research is centered on building a robust molecular phylogeny of the
Batrachospermales using at least rbcL and LSU gene data.
The laboratory anticipates federal funding for a multi-investigator
research project on prediction and detection of acid mine drainage in
Southeastern Ohio using physical, chemical and biological data. Again,
students would be funded with 1/2 RA and 1/2 TA each year. This research will
involve field research in the immediate area and laboratory analyses of
stream periphyton communities. We should have official notification of the
grant's status by February 1st.
The Department of Environmental and Plant Biology offers a MS degree, which
has at its core a broad training in plant sciences through course work. We
also have a PhD program administered through the Department of Biological
Sciences. In that program a student can follow either Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology or a Molecular and Cell Biology track. For more
information on admissions requirements, graduate programs and stipends,
please see the departmental website at
http://www.plantbio.ohiou.edu/epb/grad/graduate.htm
If interested, please email me directly with your interests (systematics or
biomonitoring; MS or PhD) and resume.
Cheers, Morgan Vis
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Dr. Morgan L. Vis
Associate Professor
Environmental & Plant Biology
Ohio University Athens OH 45701 USA
Phone 740 593-1134 Fax 740 593-1130
E-mail vis-chia at ohio.edu
Internet www.plantbio.ohiou.edu
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Be sure to check out the algae homepage (lots of algae images)
at http://vis-pc.plantbio.ohiou.edu
& the latest Phycological Society of America information
at http://www.psaalgae.org
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