Ashlee McCaskill, Ph.D.
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant Biology, Molecular Biology, Mycology (Advising Area of Expertise: Pre-Dental)
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant Biology, Molecular Biology, Mycology (Advising Area of Expertise: Pre-Dental)
She has two service projects. The first is the UNG Native Woodland Garden on the UNG Dahlonega campus. This is an educational resource for both the university and community at large. Her other service project is the collection and identification of fleshy fungi in the North Georgia Mountains, which are added to the UNG Fungal Herbarium.
Her current research projects include investigating the effects of imidacloprid (an insecticide used to treat hemlock trees for wooly adelgid infestation) on fungal growth and a molecular biology-based project investigating programmed cell death in phloem tissue.
Finally, she is the advisor for the student naturalist society (we’re still working on an official name). This is an organization of people that like to tramp through the woods, wade in creeks and look under rocks.
She is also an active member of the Southern Section of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ss-aspb.org).
Jones, S, M Davis, A McCaskill and F Corotto. Spadix Function in the Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Arisaema triphyllum. Georgia Journal of Science, in press
Marshall, T, M Davis, A McCaskill and F Corotto. Spadix Function in Pinellia pedatisecta. Aroideana, in press
McCaskill, AR and R Turgeon. (2007) Phloem loading in Verbascum phoeniceum L. depends on the synthesis of raffinose family oligosaccharides. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104: 19619-19624.
McCaskill, AR and JJ Giovannoni. (2002) Use of molecular markers for fruit crop improvement. In Molecular Techniques in Crop Improvement (S. Mohan Jain, DS Brar, BS Ahloowalia, eds) Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, p283-297.