The students in the Biological Sciences at A-State participate in original research and scientific discovery alongside their faculty members. Successful candidates in the graduate programs can earn: an MA or MS in Biology, an MS or PhD in Molecular Biosciences, and an MS or PhD in Environmental Sciences.
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Synthesis Of Novel Five-Membered Heterocycles as Bioactive Agents, Subrata Roy
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Montane Molluscs: Factors Affecting Snails and Their Trematodes Throughout the Mountain Regions of Arkansas, Taylor Michelle Fiedor
Feather Mites through Genomic and Ecological Lenses: Host Specificity and Symbiosis at Multiple Levels of Organization, Alix Elizabeth Matthews
The Role of Stressors in The Behavioral Responses of Lesser Sirens to Chemical Cues, Mackenzie Hanna Nichols
Dissecting Mechanisms Underlying the Cap1 Functions in the Matrix Adhesion and Proliferation of Cancer Cells, Auburn Ramsey
Assessing Two Methodologies to Protect Stored Rice from Insect Infestation, Md Naim Uddin
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Antimelanoma Activities of Fused Thiazole Derivatives, Sanjay Adhikary
Evaluation of Site-Specific, Zone Management in Northeast Arkansas Cotton, Nelson Ray Benson
Characterizing Effects of Non-Point Runoff on Subwatersheds of the Middle White River in Arkansas, Rainee Nicole Lynn DeRoin
Assessment of Variable Rate Nitrogen Application on Rice Cultivars Using Remote Sensing, Rush Matthew Evans
Investigating the reptilian innate immune system: A review and examination of the relationship between immunity, stress, and reproduction, Emily Katherine Field
Does Bergmann’s Rule Apply to North American Birds in The Context of Climate Change?, Peridot Derrin Galloway
Habitat Occupancy and Use for Bat Species of Concern on the Buffalo National River, James W. Gore
Shell Shocked: The Effects of Stress and Bacterial Challenges on the Chelonian Innate Immune Response, Alyssa Hartzheim
Comparing the Toxicant Responses and Culturing Characteristics of Long-Term Laboratory-Reared and Field Populations of Ceriodaphnia dubia, Victoria Rose Lydy
The Potential Use of Madtom Catfishes (Ictaluridae: Noturus) as Conservation Tools for Headwater Streams of the Southeastern United, Brittany Latrice McCall
Plant Community Patterns and A Flora of Six Lower Mississippi River Islands, Grace Leia McCartha
Evaluation Of Woodchip Bioditch Reactors as a Nutrient Reduction Conservation Strategy, Geoffrey K. Payne
Managed Aquifer Recharge: Installation And Early Evaluation of Infiltration Galleries in The Cache River Critical Groundwater Area, Northeast Arkansas, Allegra Christiane Pieri
Novel data-driven approaches to elucidate interactions between soybean and Phytopthora sojae, Thivanka Sandaruwan Ratnayake
Field Observations and an Herbarium Study to Understand Plant Reproductive Phenology in Areas Surrounding the Mississippi River, Caitlyn Marie Sims
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Cyclase-Associated Protein 1 (CAP1) In Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate (CAMP) and Protein Kinase C (PKC) Signals to Regulate Cancer Cell Functions, Lokesh Kalki Mani Sai Akana
Assessment Of Water Quality, Fish Diversity, and Lead (Pb) in the Agriculturally Dominated Upper Cache River Watershed, Arkansas, Amelia K. Atwell
Spring Migration Behavior and Summer Habitat Associations of Female Indiana Bats (Myotis Sodalis) In Arkansas, Heather N. Custer
Unraveling The Anti-Inflammatory and Cardioprotective Mechanism of Prenylated Stilbenoids from Peanut Hairy Root Cultures In Vitro And In Vivo, Md Rokib Hasan
Enhancing Production of Functional Proteins in Plant Cell Culture Through Cellular Engineering and Rational Protein Design, Uddhab Karki
Summer Distribution and Day Roost Characteristics of Eastern Small-Footed Bats (Myotis Leibii) In West-Central Arkansas, Valerie Marie Kearny
An Ecological and Physiological Assessment of Feather Mite-Bird Symbioses, Kevin James Krajcir
Evaluating The Potential Effect of Nitrogen and Toxicological Responses of Juvenile Lampsilis Reeveiana (Mollusca: Unionidae) in the Buffalo National River, Anna Marie Pieri
Investigation Of the Methylome Pattern Changes in Phytophthora Sojae Infected Soybean (Glycine Max), Shyaron Poudel
Migration Ecology of Female Indiana Bats, Arin Michelle Vann
The Role of Chemical Cues in Host Susceptibility to Fish-Parasitic Gnathiid Isopods., Clayton M. Vondriska
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Spectroscopic Investigation of Environmental Pollutants in Water and Air, Mohd Kotaiba Abugazleh
Tributary effects on water quality and fish assemblages in the Strawberry River, Arkansas, Andressa Alves Augusto
Impact Of Winter Cover Crops and Nitrogen Recommendations for Corn-Soybean Rotation in Northeast Arkansas, Brayden William Burns
High-Throughput Phenotyping of Rice Grains Subjected to High Nighttime Temperature Stress, Shannon Shareice Cunningham
Non-Breeding Ecology of Loggerhead Shrikes in An Intensive Agricultural Region, Emily Rose Donahue
Metabolic Engineering of Peanut Hairy Roots Via RNA Interference to Study the Role of Prenylated Stilbenoids Against Water Stress, Gaurav Gajurel
Induction And Characterization of Microspore Embryogenesis in Soybean (Glycine Max [L.] Merrill), Bretton M. Hale
University Sustainability Initiatives Impact on The Surrounding Areas Economy, Sara Kathleen Saucedo
Water Quality and Amphibian Ecoimmunology Assessment in The Bayou Deview Watershed, Arkansas, Amber Lynn Spence
Ecological Physiology of Rafinesque’s Big-Eared Bats (Corynorhinus Rafinesquii) Roosting in An Anthropogenic Structure in Arkansas, Benjamin N. Spitz
Artificial Intelligence Algorithms for Medical Imaging and Healthcare, Jonathan William Stubblefield
Shifts In the Acute Stress Response in Red-Eared Sliders (Trachemys Scripta) During the Activity Season, Jennifer Lauren Terry
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Roosting Ecology of a Declining Population of Northern Long-Eared Bats (Myotis Septentrionalis) in the Ozark-St. Francis National Forest of Arkansas, Kyle Norris Edmonds
Feasibility of Infiltration Galleries for Managed Aquifer Recharge in the Cache River Critical Groundwater Area, Arkansas, Ian Alexander Godwin
Foraging Behavior of Rafinesque’s Big-Eared Bats (Corynorhinus Rafinesquii) From A Barn Colony in Rural Arkansas, Crystal Ann Griffin
Climatic variability and climate change: U.S. college freshmen attitudes and spatio-temporal effects on cavity-nesting passerines, Sara Elizabeth Harrod
Understanding The Impact of Vegetation on Water Quality and Biodiversity in Northeast Arkansas Agricultural Ditches, Emma Rose Martin
A Test of the Sexually Selected Egg Color Hypothesis in Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia Sialis), Annabelle McKie-Voerste
Transcriptomics And Phenomics Analysis of High Ascorbate Arabidopsis Myo-Inositol Oxygenase Overexpressers, Nirman Nepal
Antioxidant Characterization of Peanut Hairy Root Extracts Enriched with Prenylated Stilbenoids, Patrick Roberto
Nonnative insect invasions in natural ecosystems: Impacts, policy, and evaluation of drivers using underutilized biocontrol datasets, Ashley N. Schulz
Cerulean Warbler habitat selection, breeding biology, survival, and space use in the Ozark region, Jacob Louis Wessels
Exploring the Effects of Geographic and Landscape Variation on Avian Communities and Species, Joseph Youtz
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Assessing The Contribution of Multiple Ascorbate Pathways to Abiotic Stress Tolerance Using Phenomic Approaches, Lucia Margarita Acosta Gamboa
Species Richness Patterns and Plant Size of Vascular Epiphytes Along an Elevation Gradient in the Tropical Montane Forest of Volcán Maderas, Nicaragua., Hazel Krupzkaya Berrios Alvarez
Optimizing Hydroxyproline-O-Glycan Engineering in Tobacco Transient Protein Expression: Fish IL-22 And Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein (EGFP), Cristofer Calvo
Recombinant Production of Catfish Interleukin-22 As A Natural Immune Stimulant for Improving Aquaculture Fish Health, Lana Elkins
Fall And Winter Roosting Ecology of Southeastern Myotis and Rafinesque's Big-Eared Bats in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge, Stacy Jae Scherman
Assessing The Roles of Seabird Harvest and Non-Native Rats on Grenadine Seabird Nesting Performance, Wayne Anthoony Smart
Plant Cell-Derived Growth Factors for Ex Vivo Mass Production of Red Blood Cells, Xiaoting Wang
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Ectopic Expression of a Stilbenoid Prenyltransferase from Peanut in Hairy Roots of Muscadine Grape, Mohammad Fazle Azim
Evaluating the Impact of Eastern Hemlock Decline on Louisiana Waterthrush Demographics and Behavior in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Lee Cotten Bryant
Management Implications of Sex-Specific Habitat Use by Nycticeius Humeralis in North-Central Arkansas, Megan Lynn Buckley
Soybean Androgenesis, Martina Garda
Post-Treatment Effects of Infrared Radiation on Rough Rice Germination and Lesser Grain Borers (Rhyzopertha Dominica (F.)), Rachel Marie Hampton
Developing Molecular Methods for Detection of Blood Meal Sources of a Free-Living Marine Ectoparasite, Gina Carole Hendrick
Preliminary Work on Infestation Dynamics and Stable Isotope Ecology of a Coral Reef Micropredator, William Garrett Jenkins
Analysis of Environmental DNA Methods for the Detection of Small Stream Fishes, Taylor Kristen Lee
Water Quality Assessment of The Lower Cache and the Bayou Deview Rivers, Arkansas: An Assessment of Nutrients, Sediment, Lead, and Acute Toxicity of Acephate and Thiamethoxam, Carlos Alberto Rosado-Berrios
Water Quality and Freshwater Mussel Assemblages in the Strawberry River Watershed, Arkansas, Irene Sanchez Gonzalez
Differentiation Of Oligodendrocytes for Myelination in the Nervous System, Krishna Deo Sharma
Structural characterization of feruloylated arabinoxylan oligosaccharides isolated from rice bran fiber, Kan Takahashi
Potential Vectors of Dog Heartworm, Dirofilaria Immitis, in Arkansas and Seasonal Transmission in the United States, Sofija Todorovic
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Habitat And Community Associations and the Population Dynamics of a Temporary Coral-Reef Fish Ectoparasite, John Michael Artim
Genetic Structure and Diversity of Southern Disjunct Populations of Etheostoma caeruleum and Chrosomus erythrogaster, Kyle James Dineen
Water Quality Characteristics of Reservoir Tailwater Recovery Systems Associated with Agriculture Production in Northeast Arkansas, LeeVi Trull Haas
Water Quality Characterization of On-Farm Storage Reservoirs, Ditches and Groundwater: Considerations for Potential Artificial Recharge, Klarissa Roshon Kahill
Effects Of Exposure to Quantum Dots in the External and Internal Environments of Organisms, Kenton Layne Leigh
Water Quality Characterization of a Tailwater Recovery System Associated with Row Crop Agricultural Production, Ethan Winston Leonard
Ecological and Evolutionary Relationships Between Feather Mites and Parulid Warblers, Alix Elizabeth Matthews
Stability at low densities or endangered? Spatiotemporal population dynamics of the Caddo Madtom (Noturus taylori), Brittany Latrice McCall
Evaluation Of Cadmium Bioaccumulaiton of Periphyton and Aquatic Invertebrates within Tributaries of the Buffalo National River, Jacob Rollins McCauley
Status, Patterns, and Potential Mitigation of Human-Elephant Conflict in Nepal and Elephant Habitat Use in Bardia National Park, Nepal, Dinesh Neupane
An Experimental Determination of The Quasi-Rest Potential of Copper Indium Disulfide Utilizing the Novel Open-Circuit Voltage Transient, Michael Jason Newell
Migration and the post-fledging period: Examining two critical stages of the Cerulean Warbler life cycle, Douglas William Raybuck
Prothonotary Warbler nest selection, nest survival, demographic parameters, and spatial plumage color variation, Morgan Christopher Slevin
Investigation Of the Effectiveness Of N, N-Dimethylformamide as A Solvent for CdTe Electrodeposition, Joshua Aaron Vangilder
Emulating Natural Disturbance Using Variable Retention Harvest Regimes: Measuring Short-Term Changes in The Avian Community and Understory Nest Survival, Jennifer L. Wilcox
Causes and Consequences of Range Expansion in the Genus Tyrannus, Alexander Joseph Worm
Molecular cloning and characterization of a stilbenoid prenyltransferase gene family in peanut, Tianhong Yang
Molecular And Biochemical Technologies for Modifying Plant Cell Walls and Producing Functional Biobased Products, Ningning Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Nutrient Reduction Design for Sustainable Municipal Wastewater Treatment, Lisa Brandon Ellington
Red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, development on rice fractions and oviposition preference, Brook A. Hale
Assessing Aquatic System Metabolism Response to Disturbance, Traci Carmen Hudson
