Name		Area of Study		Research Group
	Syed (Chenoo) Askree		Telomere function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae		Dr. McEachern
	Virginia Bain		First year student		Dr. Manley
	Evelina Basenko		Telomere functiion		Dr. McEachern
	Regina (Gina) Baucom		Population response to selection in plants		Dr. Mauricio
	Tina Bell		First year student		Dr. Wares
	Reed Cartwright		Evolutionary theory		Dr. Anderson
	Lizhen Chen		Thymus development		Dr. Manley
	Dae-hwan Chung				Dr. Kushner
	Vanessa Corby-Harris		Infectious disease in natural populations		Dr. Promislow
	R. Scott Cornman		Speciation and genomics of plants		Dr. Mike Arnold
	Jose Darias		First year student		Dr. Kushner
	Roger Deal		Actin-related proteins in chromatin remodeling and plant development		Dr. Meagher
	Jeremy DeBarry		Retrotransposons in the genome		Dr. Bennetzen
	Nikki Dubose		Factors that affect mRNA decay and processing in E. coli		Dr. Kushner
	Matt Estep		First year student		Dr. Bennetzen
	Sarah Finch		Normal cellular functions of the protein affected in the neuromuscular disease spinal muscular atrophy		Dr. Terns
	Dietrich Gotzek		Sociogenetics in fire ants		Dr. Ross
	Leilei Guo		First year student		Dr. Westpheling
	Laura Harris		Telomerre function		Dr. Manley
	Brandan Hillerich		Regulation of Morphogenesis and Antibiotic Production in Streptomyces		Dr. Westpheling
	Ping Hu		First year student		Dr. Malmberg
	Kimberly Hunt		Pine defense and wood development		Dr. Covert
	Shilpa Iyer		Molecular mechanisms of disease processes		Dr. McEachern
	Lori King-Reid		First year student		Dr. Bennetzen
	Vanessa Koelling		Ecological genetics of speciation		Dr. Mauricio
	Eleanor Kuntz		Evolutionary genetics		Dr. Mauricio
	Chih-Horng Kuo		Phylogenomics and host-parasite coevolution		Dr. Promislow & Dr. Kissinger
	Elizabeth Lebow		First year student		Dr. Anderson
	Jodell Linder		Sexual conflict in fruit fly		Dr. Promislow
	Renyi Liu		Gene discovery and natural selection		Dr.Bennetzen
	Zhijie Liu_		First year student		Dr. Manley
	Terri Long		Plant/pathogen interactions		Dr. Covert
	Fang Lu		First year graduate student		Dr. Bennetzen
	Judith Mank		Reproductive fitness and sex determination in sequential hermaphrodites		Dr. Bedell
	Sarah Marshburn				Dr. Terns
	Pablo Mendes				Dr. Kissinger
	Laura Menendez		Hypermethylation and chromatin structure of underexpressed genes in ovarian cancer		Dr. Manley
	Nandita Mullapudi		Gene regulation in T. gondii		Dr. Kissinger
	Won-Jong Oh		GABAergic neuronal differentiation during mouse embryogenesis		Dr. Condie
	Monica Poelchau		Evolutionary biology of tropical plants		Dr. Hamrick
	Hui (Maggie) Qiu		Movement and localization of RNAs in the eukaryotic nucleus		Dr. Terns
	Mohammad Rahman		Cell cycle regulation		Dr. Kipreos
	Katherine Reifsnider		Role of ecdysone receptor isoform EcR-A in the TV neurons in the CNS of Drosophila melanogaster		Dr. Bender
	Jeanne Rhea		The propeptide processing protease amontillado and it's role in Drosophila development		Dr. Bender
	Marly Rios-Roche		Mouse genetics		Dr. Bedell
	Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra		Population genetics of plant domestication		Dr. Hamrick
	Daniel Ruzicka		Actin Depolymerizing Factor (ADF) family of proteins in Arabidopsis		Dr. Meagher
	Scott Small		Diversity and ecosystem dynamics		Dr. Wares
	Mark Stead		First year student		Dr. Kushner
	Karen L. Stirrett		First year student		Dr. Westpheling
	Rebecca Tomlinson		Transport of telomerase, a key complex in immortalization of cancer cells		Dr. Terns
	Cindy Vindman		Genetics of Streptomyces species and development of viral transfer of genes within Streptomyces		Dr. McEachern
	Qiaozhi Wei		Second year student		Dr. Condie
	Melissa Williams		Cotton fibers		Dr. Paterson
	Jianing Xu		First year student		Dr. McEachern
	Lixing Yang		Second year student		Dr. Bennetzen
	Han Zhang		First year student		Dr. Bedell