Ioannis Tzanetakis , prof of plant virology at the University of Arkansas , take in aid from a student intern this summer with a task on the epidemiology of Chuck Berry and ornamental viruses .
Epidemiology is the study of relative incidence , distribution and potential ascendence of disease and other factors touch on to health .
Maria Gomez , a third - year student at Los Andes University in Bogota , Colombia , assisted Tzanetakis with his plant life virome research , a holistic approach studying the effect of plant virus on their hosts .
Tzanetakis , a faculty appendage in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural , Food and Life Science ’s Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology and a scientist with the U of A System Division of Agriculture , is judge the effect of mixed virus contagion in blackberry bush and peony plant life .
Gomez participated in the project as an Adair Scholar , which funds undergraduate scholar summer internships . She has been in Fayetteville from the end of May through early August .
The Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology offers the undergrad endowed scholarship in honor of C. Roy Adair , a geneticist and plant breeder , whose attainment help oneself establish the note of Arkansas Rice .
Gomez investigate a subset of virus that infect blackberry and paeony , and their ability to be mechanically transmitted to other plants and their ability to infect the next plant generation through septic ejaculate .
" Maria ( Majo ) is an prodigious pupil with an excellent background and force back to resolve scientific problems , " say Tzanetakis . " Operating a transnational lab with individuals from five continent , we expand our scientific and personal horizons , benefiting from the experience of the internships and put up scholar with toolboxes to meliorate their inquiry in their home country . We are able-bodied to upgrade the status of the U of A and the Division of Agriculture across the world . Many of the Adair scholars have arrive back to become postgraduate student in our section and been successful in academia , industry and extension in Arkansas , the U.S. and internationally . "
The Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology offers the undergraduate endowed learning in purity of C. Roy Adair , a geneticist and industrial plant breeder , whose accomplishments helped build the preeminence of Arkansas Elmer Reizenstein . The first rice stock breeder to do work in Arkansas , Adair and his married woman Ethel Owen Adair bequeath their entire estate of more than $ 1 million to scholarship funds at the U of A and Hendrix College in Conway .
The research internship is offered every year to junior and senior undergrad , at the U of A or other institutions , with an interest in plant pathology . The software is available here .
Source : University of Arkansas
