Ursula R枚se invited to speak at the Gordon Research Conference 鈥楶lant Volatiles鈥�

Ursula R枚se, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Biology, was an invited speaker at the Gordon Research Conference 鈥淧lant Volatiles,鈥� which was held January 26-31, 2014, in Ventura, California.

R枚se鈥檚 talk on the "Inducibility of Volatile and Non-Volatile Compounds in Brown Macroalgae and Their Effect on Herbivore Behavior" included her work with two undergraduate student co-authors, Janithri Wickranamayake (Biology 鈥�14) and former undergraduate student Kyle Martin (Biology 鈥�13), who is currently working on his Ph.D. in plant biology at Cornell University.

 

 

R枚se鈥檚 research focuses on Fucus vesiculosus, a brown macroalgae in the intertidal zone in Biddeford Pool, and snail and isopod herbivores that induce the emission of halocarbons as well as non-volatile compounds.  

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