Undergraduate
Saint Michael's Biology Professor awarded $170,700 NSF Grant over three years
Mark Lubkowitz lands grant to study rice seed germination
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Buff Lindau, Public Relations
802.654.2536
blindau@smcvt.edu
Saint Michael's students and students from the University of Tennessee and from City University of New York at Staten Island will be helping their professors in a project to examine the impact of transporters inside cells on successful germination of rice seeds. Principal investigator Mark Lubkowitz, assistant professor of biology at Saint Michael's College, has been awarded a $170,700 grant over three years from the National Science Foundation, as announced April 10, 2007.
The collaborative research project, officially titled "The role of oligopeptide transporters in germinating rice seeds," will be directed by Professor Lubkowitz at Saint Michael's, with parts of the study being carried out by his co-investigators from Tennessee and CUNY.
Professor Lubkowitz, who earned his doctorate at the University of Tennessee and is now in his seventh year at Saint Michael's College, described the grant as having the potential to affect plant reproductive success through increasing our understanding of amino acid unloading. This knowledge, he said, could enhance future breeding practices and transgenic technologies in cereal crops.
Undergraduate student researchers at the three participating institutions will carry out much of the work of the research project, thereby learning their way into serious laboratory work. Professor Lubkowitz's students will complete the plant molecular biology components of the project.
Professor Lubkowitz and his wife Ginger reside in Richmond, Vt., with their two children.
Saint Michael's College, founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President Marc A. vanderHeyden, has been identified by U. S. News & World Report for 17 consecutive years as one of the top15 Master's Universities in the North. A liberal arts, residential, Catholic college located in the Burlington area of Vermont, Saint Michael's was recently invited to sponsor a chapter of the prestigious academic honor society, Phi Beta Kappa, on campus. Saint Michael's has 2,000 full-time undergraduate students, and some 500 graduate students and 200 international students, studying part time. The College was named recently by Newsweek magazine a "Hidden Treasure," one of 30 colleges recommended most frequently by guidance counselors for being "schools that deserve more national recognition." Saint Michael's is included in Princeton Review's The Best 361 Colleges: 2007 Edition.
Buff Lindau, Public Relations
802.654.2536
blindau@smcvt.edu
Saint Michael's students and students from the University of Tennessee and from City University of New York at Staten Island will be helping their professors in a project to examine the impact of transporters inside cells on successful germination of rice seeds. Principal investigator Mark Lubkowitz, assistant professor of biology at Saint Michael's College, has been awarded a $170,700 grant over three years from the National Science Foundation, as announced April 10, 2007. The collaborative research project, officially titled "The role of oligopeptide transporters in germinating rice seeds," will be directed by Professor Lubkowitz at Saint Michael's, with parts of the study being carried out by his co-investigators from Tennessee and CUNY.
Professor Lubkowitz, who earned his doctorate at the University of Tennessee and is now in his seventh year at Saint Michael's College, described the grant as having the potential to affect plant reproductive success through increasing our understanding of amino acid unloading. This knowledge, he said, could enhance future breeding practices and transgenic technologies in cereal crops.
Undergraduate student researchers at the three participating institutions will carry out much of the work of the research project, thereby learning their way into serious laboratory work. Professor Lubkowitz's students will complete the plant molecular biology components of the project.
Professor Lubkowitz and his wife Ginger reside in Richmond, Vt., with their two children.
Saint Michael's College, founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President Marc A. vanderHeyden, has been identified by U. S. News & World Report for 17 consecutive years as one of the top15 Master's Universities in the North. A liberal arts, residential, Catholic college located in the Burlington area of Vermont, Saint Michael's was recently invited to sponsor a chapter of the prestigious academic honor society, Phi Beta Kappa, on campus. Saint Michael's has 2,000 full-time undergraduate students, and some 500 graduate students and 200 international students, studying part time. The College was named recently by Newsweek magazine a "Hidden Treasure," one of 30 colleges recommended most frequently by guidance counselors for being "schools that deserve more national recognition." Saint Michael's is included in Princeton Review's The Best 361 Colleges: 2007 Edition.
