Many of the faculty hire students both during the school year as well as during the summer months. Since employment possibilities vary with work schedules and availability of money, it is best to check in-person with the faculty member. Work study funds are not necessarily required for employment.
If you are interested in a individual problem or research project for a 470, 489, 490 or 570 credit, please talk with these same faculty members.
| Name and Field of Study |
Office Number |
Blake, Tom -- Develop and identifying barley varieties which will help Montana farmers improve competitively and expand understanding of genetic principles which control ability to create improved barley varieties |
209 AgBioScience Bldgl |
Bruckner, Phil -- Development of high-yielding winter wheat varieties that have good agronomic characteristics and resistance to disease and insect pests |
407 Leon Johnson Hall |
Cripps, Cathy -- My research is focused on the ecological and taxonomic aspects of higher fungi, primarily Basidiomycetes. I am particularly interested in mycorrhizal fungi associated with aspen |
309 AgBioScience Bldg |
| Ditterline, Ray -- Development of multiple pest-resistant dryland alfalfa cultivars with good agronomic traits for Montana |
410 Leon Johnson Hall |
| Dyer, Bill -- Physiology and molecular biology of seed dormancy maintenance and release in Avena fatua; biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology of herbicide/plant interactions |
726 Leon Johnson Hall |
| Fischer, Andreas -- Plant biochemistry with particular interests in the role of carbon/nitrogen "crosstalk" in the regulation of nitrogen metabolism and in understanding the molecular & biochemical basis of protein degradation in leaves’ metabolism |
210 AgBioScience Bldg |
| Giroux, Mike -- Molecular genetics and cereal chemistry of small grain quality. Identifying the genetic and biochemical basis of end use quality aspects such as grain hardness and starch quality |
203 AgBioScience Bldg |
| Gough, Bob -- Development and delivery of educational programs relevant to Montana issues in horticulture including small landowner needs, homeowner lawn and garden problems, water conservation, and tree and shelterbelt design and maintenance. |
313 Leon Johnson Hall |
| Grey, Bill -- My research interests include soilborne diseases of crops and weeds, and diseases of mint. |
214 AgBioScience Bldg |
| Jacobsen, Barry -- Development of disease management strategies and IPM programs for crops grown in Montana with emphasis on potatoes and sugar beets. |
205 AgBioScience Bldg |
| Johnston, Mareike -- Fungal leaf diseases of small cereal grains with emphasis on rusts and mildews of wheat and barley |
210 AgBioScience Bldg |
| Lavin, Matt -- Phylogenetic systematics and biogeography; Molecular systematics; Taxonomy of the plant family Leguminosae |
308 AgBioScience Bldg |
| Martin, Jack -- Application of quantitative genetic principles and methods in cultivar and germplasm development. |
409 Leon Johnson Hall |
| Richman, Adam -- Evolution of self-recognition systems, which include the self-incompatibility locus in flowering plants and MHC loci in vertebrates |
313 AgBioScience Bldg |
| Riesselman, Jack -- Test new technology prior to utilization by Montana producers. Current projects include fungicide and variety testing, sustainability of agricultural systems and integrated approaches of disease control |
207 AgBioScience Bldg |
| Sands, Dave -- Plant bacteriology, biological control of weeds, and biotechnology. Ongoing work includes the ecology, detection, characterization, and control of Pseudomonas syringae and Xanthomonas campestris. As an alternative to chemical herbicides, plant pathogenic fungi and bacteria are being developed as biological herbicides to control weeds |
204 AgBioScience Bldg |
| Sharrock, Bob -- Molecular mechanisms of light sensing in plants. Our overall objective is to understand how the phytochrome red/far-red photoreceptors trigger and coordinate plant developmental responses to the light environment |
309 AgBioScience Bldg |
| Sherman, Jamie -- Cytogenetics, particularly interested in learning more about control over recombination. |
419 Leon Johnson Hall |
| Sherwood, John -- Molecular genetic basis of plant-fungal pathogen interactions in order to develop novel strategies for controlling fungal pathogens |
303 AgBioScience Bldg |
| Stout, Rich -- Physiology of heat-adapted plants living in geothermal environments within Yellowstone National Park; cellular and molecular adaptations of plants to stressful environments. |
310 AgBioScience Bldg |
| Strobel, Gary -- Isolation and characterization of many novel bioactive compounds from plant pathogenic fungi and bacteria. |
206 AgBioScience Bldg |
| Talbert, Luther -- Plant breeding and molecular genetics emphasizing incorporation of both traditional and molecular approaches in the improvement of wheat and understanding the state of genetic variation in crop plants. |
406 Leon Johnson Hall |
| Young, Mark -- My program utilizes plant viruses to understand viral diseases and as model systems to explore plant cell biology. By combining biochemical and genetic approaches, with the tools of molecular and structural biology, I examine the interplay of both host and viral genes. |
307 AgBioScience Bldg |
| Weeden, Norman -- My interests involve the genetic studies in pulse crops, primarily pea and lentil but also including comparisons with chickpea, common bean, cowpea and lupin. I am particularly interested in developing DNA markers and applying marker assisted selection techniques to pea varietal improvement. Genome evolution and linkage conservation within the Papilionoid subfamily are also subjects under study in my program. |
305 AgBioScience Bldg |
| Zidack, Nina -- Investigation of weed pathogens as possible biological weed control agents. I am especially interested in bacterial diseases of weeds and the formulation of bacterial agents to increase their efficacy as biological herbicides. |
215 AgBioScience Bldg |
