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Dr. Mary Fields

Research Interests

EDUCATION  

Miami University, Oxford, OH.
Ph.D. 1977. 
Dissertation Research: Isolation and characterization of EMS induced mutants in Mimulus cardinalis.

Miami University. Oxford, OH.
M.S. 1969.
Thesis: Carotenoid inheritance in the Mimulus cardinalis complex.

Otterbein College, Westerville, OH.
B. A. 1965.  


PROFESSIONAL  EXPERIENCE

                              1994-present Professor, Department of Biology, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA


COURSES TAUGHT

BIO 100Q Intro Biology
BIO 100L Intro Biology Lab
BIO 350 Plants and Society
BIO 350L Plants and Society Lab
BIO 200A Human Heredity
BIO 200L Human Heredity Lab
BIO 111L Organisms & Evolution Lab
BIO 335 Plant Physiology
BIO 335L Plant Physiology Lab

 

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Botanical Society of America
Mid-Atlantic Plant Molecular Biology Society
Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences
Sigma Xi

 

AWARDS & FUNDING

                         2004

HHMI Summer Research Grant to Nicholas Peacock and Ashley Willow
                         2003

HHMI Summer Research Grant to Rohit Rajoia and Kevin Sylvester
                         2002 HHMI Summer Research Grant to Matthew DiLeo
                         2001 Summer Fellowship to David Lecher and
Mark Drinker
                         1998 Summer Fellowship to Lori Lasco
                         1997 Summer Fellowships to David Meehan and Jennifer McGee
                         1990-2000 VanSant Student Research Grant
                         1996 HHMI Summer Research Fellows w/ R. Dawley

 
SELECTED PUBLICATION & PRESENTATIONS

*denotes student author
 

2005

A. Willow*, R. Rajoria*, M. Fatale* and M. Fields.  A Study of DNA Content in Several Mimulus Species.  16th Annual St. Joseph's University Sigma Xi Student Research Symposium, April 8, 2005, Philadephia, PA

2004

R. Rajoria*, A. Willow*, N. Peacock*, M. Fatale* and M. Fields.  A Study of DNA Content in Mimulus.  Undergraduate Science Research Symposium, Haverford College, Haverford, PA, November 6, 2004
  K. Sylvester*, R. Rajoria*, A. Willow*, N. Peacock*, L. Trappanese* and M. Fields.  A Study of DNA Content in Mimulus.  15th Annual St. Joseph's University Sigma Xi Student Research Symposium, April 23, 2004. 
                                       2003 M. DiLeo*, K. Shoenberger, R. Dawley and
M. Fields.  Genome size, aneuploidy, and Reproductive isolation of two Species of Monkey Flower, Mimulus guttatus and M. nastus.  17th Annual Conference on Undergraduate research, March 14, 2003, Salt Lake City, Utah.