Graduate Students and Advisors

Holly Han

  • Studies in Adaptation of Bermudagrass Selections for Commercial Suitability
  • Dr. Dennis Martin, Advisor

Elif Kalkan

  • Liquefied Gas Extraction of Agricultural Substrates
  • Dr. Niels Maness, Advisor

Sophia Kamenidou

  • Soluble Silicon-based Disease Management of Floricultural Crops
  • Dr. Mike Smith, Advisor

Katie Fine

  • Use of cottonseed and canola meal as a soil conditioner in landscape plantings
  • Dr. Janet Cole, Advisor

Katie and Dan preparing research plots comparing soil conditions for landscape plantings.

Katie and Dan are preparing to spread urea as one treatment in a trial that tests the effect of cottonseed meal and canola meal as soil conditioners for landscape plantings. Urea was used as a readily available commercial fertilizer control treatment in the study.

Ioannis Oikonomakos

  • Antioxidant Activity of Grape Processing Waste
  • Dr. William McGlynn, Advisor

Jessica Ong

  • Infield Microbial Contamination of Leafy Greens
  • Dr. William McGlynn, Advisor

Andrew Puckett

  • Viticultural and Entomological Studies of Oklahoma Winegrapes
  • Dr. Eric Stafne, Advisor

Darren Scott

  • Antioxidant Activity in Lycopene in Foods
  • Dr. William McGlynn, Advisor

Santanu Thapa

  • Water Use Efficiency and Drought Tolerance of Commonly Used Bermudagrasses in Oklahoma
  • Dr. Dennis Martin, Advisor

Dafang Wang

  • Protein Thermoprotection by Chemical Chaperones
  • Dr. Jeff Anderson, Advisor
Graduate student taking a spectrophotometer reading to determine the pepper leaf protein turbidity. Dafang Wang is using a spectrophotometer to measure stability of pepper leaf proteins after exposure to high temperatures.  Dafang is an M.S. candidate in the plant stress physiology program.

Hareg Woldemesket

  • Risk Assessment in Fresh Cut Produce
  • Dr. William McGlynn

Pradeep Wagle

  • Nickel Nutrition in Pecans
  • Dr. Mike Smith, Advisor
Dr. Jeff Anderson
  • Professor, Stress Physiology
Dr. Janet Cole
  • Professor, Ornamental Horticulture
Dr. Niels Maness
  • Professor, Postharvest Physiology
Dr. Dennis Martin
  • Professor, Extension Turfgrass Specialist
Dr. William McGlynn
  • Extension and Research Food Science Specialist

Yannis working with grape waste extracts for antioxidant activity.

Preparation of grape waste extracts for antioxidant activity. Grape waste by products (pomace: skins, seeds, stems) are a potential source of antioxidants that may be used in the pharmaceutical and food industry for their properties. Different types of solvents in several rations, as well as different extraction times, were used to determine the best combination that would extract the most antioxidants in an aqueous or not layer.

Dr. Mike Smith
  • Regents Professor Pomology
Dr. Eric Stafne
  • Assistant Professor of Fruit Crops

Andrew Puckette counts the number of roots on a grape cutting to assess its inherent proclivity for root production.

Andrew Puckette counts the number of roots on a grape cutting to assess its inherent proclivity for root production.  This data will be used in conjunction with field counts of aerial roots associated with the 2007 Easter freeze to determine if a genetic relationship exists between soil and aerial root development.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For additional information contact the graduate coordinator, Jeff Anderson.