Kowles attends genetics conference, presents research*

Dr. Dick Kowles, Biology Department, attended the 49th annual Maize Genetics Conference on March 22-25 at Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles, Ill. The research that Kowles, Dr. Jeanne Minnerath, and colleagues at the University of Minnesota have amassed on oat-maize plants and photosynthesis was presented.

Matt Walch, an SMU alumnus and graduate student at the University of Minnesota, gave the presentation. Only 36 research projects were selected for oral presentations out of over several hundred applications. Also attending the conference were a number of former SMU students including Ruth Swanson Wagner, Iowa State University; Sherry Flint-Garcia, University of Missouri; and Teresa Miller, Marquette University. Wagner and Miller displayed posters of their research. All are alumni who found their way into maize genetics.