Adair and Bollenbacher summer interns working on plant pathology research projects and their University of Arkansas faculty advisers are (L-R): Brian Petty, John Rupe, Maauricio Antonio Cuzato Mancuso, Angela Maria Iglesias Garcia, Jim Correll, Michele Burnham and Burt Bluhm.
Brian Petty of Joplin, a senior at Missouri Southern State University, is one of four students that are Adair and Bollenbacher scholars in the plant pathology department of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences at the University of Arkansas. The 2008 summer undergraduate intern, getting a head start on graduate school, investigated the "Quantification of Wheat Resistance to Fusarium using Real-time PCR" under the tutelage of Professor Euguene Milus and Assistant Professor Burt Bluhm.
Petty and Alisha Michele Burnham of Lancaster, SC; Angela Maria Iglesias-Garcia of Cali, Columbia and Mauricio Antonio Cuzato Mancuso of San Paulo, Brazil presented their work on the genetics and epidemiology of disease organisms that affect crop plants August 6, 2008 on campus.
The C. Roy Adair Undergraduate Research Internship Program is funded by an endowment established in memory of a USDA-ARS rice breeder based at the Rice Branch Station who helped establish the Arkansas rice industry. The Katharine Bollenbacher Memorial Endowment was created in 1984 in memory of a pioneering UA plant pathologist.
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