Research, Page 18

Shibu Jose, the associate dean in the CAFNR Office of Research, has spent his distinguished career researching a variety of topics, including agroforestry practices and ecological sustainability. Jose recently added to his long list of accolades after being named a 2020 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Dec. 3, 2020

Joining a Prestigious Organization
The University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR) School of Natural Resources (SNR) offers a premier PhD program in forest resources. The new program, supported by SNR and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Food and Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate Fellowships (NNF) Grants Program, offers students an opportunity to pursue interdisciplinary studies focused in areas such as agroforestry, forest management, silviculture, landscape ecology, fire science, urban ecology, water resources, or natural resources law and policy.

Nov. 13, 2020

Expanding Their Horizons
Dr. Bill Danforth

Sept. 25, 2020

Remembering the Legacy of Dr. William Danforth
Melody Muldrow was recently honored as one of three students named George Washington Carver Graduate Fellows, an award that seeks to attract and support under-represented scholars into MS and PhD degree programs in CAFNR. Photo courtesy of Melody Muldrow.

Aug. 14, 2020

Making a Difference for Communities in Need
Nasruddeen (Nas) Al-Awwal was recently honored as one of three students named George Washington Carver Graduate Fellows, an award that seeks to attract and support under-represented scholars into MS and PhD degree programs in CAFNR. Photo taken by Lalith Rankoth and courtesy of Nas Al-Awwal.

Aug. 14, 2020

Realizing His Dream
Nicole Terherst Amezcua was recently honored as one of three students named George Washington Carver Graduate Fellows, an award that seeks to attract and support under-represented scholars into MS and PhD degree programs in CAFNR. Photo courtesy of Nicole Terherst Amezcua.

Aug. 14, 2020

A Sense of Belonging
The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) recently announced an investment of $6.2 million in animal reproduction research. Nearly $1.5 million of that investment is coming to the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources’ (CAFNR) Division of Animal Sciences. A total of 14 awards were handed out to 11 institutions, with CAFNR earning three of the awards.

July 27, 2020

An Investment in Animal Reproduction Research
A working group made up of researchers and scientists from the United States and Canada recently created an online database of academic papers related to the effects of climate change on inland fish. The Fish and Climate Change Database (FiCli) is a comprehensive and searchable database of peer-reviewed literature on how climate change has impacted and will continue to impact inland fish worldwide. The database includes numerous species, as well as geographical locations and habitats, among many other variables.

July 9, 2020

The Importance of Inland Fish
Researchers at the University of Missouri and the University of Georgia recently published a paper related to an underutilized source of resistance in the soybean genotype Peking. That source is linked to two polymorphisms in serine hydroxyl-methyltransferase 8 (SHMT8). SHMT is an enzyme important for folate-mediated 1-carbon metabolism, a universal metabolic process. David Korasick, a postdoctoral fellow who was part of the John Tanner lab and mentored by Tanner, Lesa Beamer and Melissa Mitchum, produced five crystal structures of different states of the SHMT8 tetramers from the SCN-susceptible and SCN-resistant cultivar. He combined protein biochemistry, protein biophysics and X-ray crystallography approaches to tackle the problem.

June 3, 2020

Fighting a Financially Taxing Pathogen
The Center for Agroforestry’s Chung-Ho Lin, an associate research professor, and his lab are currently looking at how to redirect its analytical capacity (reverse-transcription and real-time qPCR) for the detection and quantification of COVID-19 in food, water and air – and develop mitigation techniques to reduce community exposure to COVID-19.

May 4, 2020

Contributing to Research