Fargo, N.D. – Five students represented NDSU at the North Dakota Academy of Sciences annual meeting April 18 at Turtle Mountain Community College.

Ambika Badh, a graduate student in Adnan Akyuz' lab, presented "Understanding growing degree days for corn in the United States of America." Krittanut Chaithawiwat, a graduate student in Eakalak Khan's and John McEvoy's labs, presented "Effects of nanoscale zero-valent iron on bacterial viability: role of growth phases." Priyankar Samanta, a graduate student in Birgit Pruess' lab, presented "Gene regulation in Escherichia coli biofilms."

Among the undergraduate students, Ty Lynnes, from Rubella Goswami's lab, presented data on "Development of a PCR-based assay for the detection of resistant isolates of Ascochyta rabiei to QoI fungicides" and Travis Rath, also from Goswami's lab, presented research on "Evaluating host based differences in aggressiveness of Fusarium graminearum and Fusarium culmorum."