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Faculty Mentor Information:
Dr. Thomas Byl is
a Biologist and Chemist in the Department of Civil
Engineering. His research focuses on surface and
ground-water quality and fate of chemicals and pathogens
in aquatic environments. Projects that students will
participate in his laboratory include 1)
Bio-Remediation. 2) Phytoremediation. and 3)
Wetland Ecology. Contact information:
tdbyl@yahoo.com,
http://www.tnstate.edu/cae/Byl.aspx.
Dr. Emmanuel Dzantor
is Research Associate Professor at the School of
Agriculture and Consumer Sciences at TSU. He has more
than 20 years of experience in environmental studies
including bioremediation and phytoremediation of soil
contaminants, and restoration of degraded lands. His
current research areas are elucidation of plant-microbe
interactions involved in rhizodegradation, environmental
impacts of runoff from nursery production and
plant-microbe signaling processes that are important in
agriculture and ecosystem sustainability. Student
projects in his laboratory will include biochemical and
molecular profiling of rhizosphere microbial communities
that are important in rhizodegradation of contaminants,
and potentials of xenobiotic contaminants for disrupting
mutually beneficial plant-microbe signaling. Contact
information:
edzantor@tnstate.edu,
http://www.tnstate.edu/agriculture/resumes/emmanuel_dzantor.aspx.
Dr. Anthony Ejiofor
is Associate Professor in the Department of Biology. His
research interests are Phylogeny and community structure
of prokaryotes in extreme environments and dynamics of
groundwater pollution. Areas of Expertise: Microbial
Physiology, Fermentation technology, and Vector Biology
and Control.
E-mail: aejiofor@tnstate.edu.
Phone: (615) 963-5806.
http://www.tnstate.edu/biology/ejioforanthony.aspx.
Dr.
Dafeng Hui is a Plant Ecologist and Modeler. He has
several years' research experience in global change
ecology and ecosystem ecology using both experimental
and modeling methods. Specially, he has studied elevated
CO2 influence on plant photosynthesis, soil
respiration, and provided various statistical and
modeling methods in ecological research.
Students will
participate in the following research projects in Dr.
Hui’s lab: 1) Experimental study of litter
decomposition in the mixed species. 2)
Interannual variability in net ecosystem exchanges at
AmeriFlux sites. and 3) Field experimental study
of bioenergy crop (switchgrass) growth and productivity.
Contact information:
dhui@tnstate.edu,
http://www.tnstate.edu/biology/huidafeng.aspx or
http://faculty.tnstate.edu/dhui.
Dr.
Philip Ganter is an Ecologist and has many years?research experience in
yeast. You may find more information about his research
and teaching at the website:
http://www.tnstate.edu/ganter/index.html.
Contact information:
pganter@tnstate.edu,
http://www.tnstate.edu/biology/ganterphil.aspx.
Dr. Terrance Johnson
is an Environmental Microbiologist. He has studied
environmental influences on microbial composition and
activities. He has isolated a number of strains of
Bacillus thuringienesis from the middle Tennessee
area and Chromobacterium violacein from the
Tennessee Copper Basin. He continues to study the
microbial community and its changes as restoration
activities take place in the Copper Basin, TN. Students
involved in his laboratory will isolate Bacillus
thuringienisis and Chromobacterium violacein
and other bacteria from environmental samples and
characterize the organisms using BioLog analysis, 16S
gene amplification and sequence analysis. Specifically,
student mentees will be directly involved in collecting
environmental samples, enumerating culturable and non-culturable
organisms associated with these samples, and identifying
and characterizing selected bacteria from these samples
using BioLog and 16S gene sequence analyses. Contact
information:
tjohnson@tnstate.edu,
http://www.tnstate.edu/biology/johnsonterrance.aspx.
Dr. Xiaofei Wang is a Molecular Biologist. He has participated in
the development of avian genomic tools, including
preparation of EST libraries and EST sequence analysis,
development of cDNA microarrays. His current area of
research includes identification of segregating genes
that contribute to the biological clock control
mechanisms, fat deposition, and genome structure
variation in chickens. Students in Dr. Wang’s laboratory
will participate in the internal/externally funded
research projects, using techniques such as PCR, real
time qPCR, DNA microarrays to understand mechanisms of
environmental influences on biological clock in
chickens. Contact information:
xwang@tnstate.edu,
http://www.tnstate.edu/biology/wangxiaofei.aspx.
Dr. Suping Zhou is
also an Environmental Biologist and has studied
influences of environmental factors such as temperature,
salinity on gene expressions. Students in Dr. Zhou’s
laboratory will study 1) identification of proteins
that are affected by the salt treatment; 2)
identification of the genes (or sequences) regulated by
the heat stress including metagenomic DNA library
screening, testing cellulase activity, and DNA sequence
analysis; and 3) construction of a model for the gene
expression regulatory control for the stress conditions.
Contact information:
zsuping@tnstate.edu,
http://www.tnstate.edu/agriculture/resumes/suping_zhou.aspx. A
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