Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (Chowan University)

We are partnering with Assistant Professor Tyrell Carr in the Department of Biology and Physical Sciences at Chowan University, to recruit a Chowan undergraduate student each year to participate in a summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program sponsored by ISU’s Center for Biorenewable Chemicals.   

Summer researchers will be exposed to hands-on plant biology and metabolomics research.  Moreover, students will engage not only in laboratory experiments but also field experiments, which is often a new experience for undergraduate researchers.   In Summer 2015 our team hosted Chowan sophomore, Nayoka Peterson.  Nayoka worked with her mentor, Research Associate Derek Loneman, to profile maize silk surface lipids from a population of 388 recombinants lines and through this experience was trained in extracting surface lipids, conducting GC-MS analysis, data management and statistical analysis.