Theses and Dissertations of KSU Division of Biology Graduate Students

2005

• Mong, Tony (Using radio-telemetry to determine range and resource requirements of upland sandpipers at an experimentally managed prairie landscape)
• Pegadaraju, Venkatramana [Molecular insights into Arabidopsis response to Myzus persicae sulzer (green peach aphid)]
• Rehmeier, Ryan (Factors influencing nightly activity of deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) in tallgrass prairie)

2006

• Detvisitsakun, Chanitchote (Functional Characterization of a Baculovirus Fibroblast Growth Factor)
• Flock, Brian (Effects of landscape configuration on northern bobwhite in southeastern Kansas)
• Johnson, Tracey (Ecological restoration of tallgrass prairie: grazing management benefits plant and bird communities in upland and riparian habitats)
• Kosciuch, Karl (Host-parasite interactions on an experimental landscape)
• KcKinley, Duncan (Consequences of conversion of native Mesic grassland to coniferous forest on soil processes and ecosystem C and N storage)
• Strakosh, Tim (Effects of water willow establishment on littoral assemblages in Kansas reservoirs: focus on age-0 largemouth bass)
• Thiagarajan, Bala (Community dynamics of rodents, fleas and plague associated with black-tailed prairie dogs)

2007

• Bertrand, Katie Nicole (Fishes and floods: stream ecosystem drivers in the Great Plains)
• Dalgleish, Harmony (Belowground bud banks as regulators of grassland dynamics)
• Kaler, Robb (Demography, habitat use and movements of a recently reintroduced island population of Evermann's Rock Ptarmigan)
• Kaltinger, Megan (EBSG, a novel surface protein, is involved in the biology of Lipoteichoic acid in Enterococcus faecalis)
• Jonas, Jayne (Nutrient resources and stoichiometry affect the ecology of above- and belowground invertebrate consumers)
• Morton, Jessica (Characterization of a lipase in Arabidopsis defense)
• Nooker, Jackie (Factors affecting the demography of a lek-mating bird: the greater prairie-chicken)
• Wu, Mingfu (A novel non-canonical WNT pathway regulates the asymmetric b cell division in Caenorhabditis elegans)

2008

• Eitzmann, Jeff (Spatial habitat variation in a Great Plains river: effects on the fish assemblage and food web structure)
• Thornbrugh, Darren (Influence of stream connectance and network spatial position on fish assemblage structure in the Kansas River basin, USA)       
• Xie, Linglin (Understanding adipokine secretion and adipocyte-macrophage cellular interactions, in search for the molecular basis of insulin sensitivity and resistance)