Daniel Deignan receives Professional Experience Grant

Dr. Barry Nolt and Daniel Deignan
Daniel Deignan, a senior majoring in pre-medical sciences,  has been awarded a Professional Experience Grant to conduct reserach with Dr. Barry Nolt. They are investigating the ability of Mural, a  fungicide, to  suppress populations of the oomycete Pythium in greenhouse soil from Dillion Floral. To test the chemical's effectiveness, they collected soil samples from a treatment plot and used a selective agar plate based dilution technique to quantify the pythium populations. DNA in the isolates will be analyzed to determine what species of Pythium are present and which may have been effectively suppressed by the Mural fungicide.  Dan is a member of Tri-Beta Biology Honor Society and a recipient of the Dr. Frederick Maue 1976 Scholarship.

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