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Louis Plough, Ph.D.

Location:

Horn Point Laboratory

Research Topics:

Molecular Biology and Genetics

Research Interests:

Population genetics of marine animals, quantitative genetics and experimental breeding of shellfish; oyster biology and aquaculture; ecological genomics of stress adaptation in marine animals; larval biology of marine invertebrates.

Visit http://www.umces.edu/louis-plough for more about their expertise, education, and contact information.

Students:

2023 - Imogen Southerland, Texas A&M University, College Station

2019 - Oliver Autrey, Michigan State University

2017 - Michelle Nguyen, Texas A&M University Galveston

2016 - Brittany Rosener, Clemson University

2015 - Robert Scharping, Kansas State University Manhattan

2014 - Adrian Plummer, William Paterson University

Student Publications:

Plough, L., C. Fitzgerald, A. Plummer*, J. Pierson. 2018. Reproductive isolation and morphological divergence between cryptic lineages of the copepod Acartia tonsa in Chesapeake Bay . Marine Ecology Progress Series 597: 99-113 .

Student Presentations:

Autrey, O.*, R.J. Woodland, and L.V. Plough. 2019. Fecundity and genetic differences of Neomysis americana in two tributaries of Chesapeake Bay. Coastal Estuarine Research Federation Biennial Meeting, Mobile, AL.
Nguyen, M.*, K. McFarland, M. Hare, L. Plough. 2018. Physiological responses of wild and aquaculture Crassostrea virginica larvae to starvation conditions . Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR .
Rosener, B.* and L. Plough. 2016. Assessment of fitness between cryptic species of Acartia tonsa in the Chesapeake Bay area in relation to hypoxia exposure . Clemson University College of Science Undergraduate Research Showcase, Clemson, SC .
Scharping, R.*, E. North and L. Plough. 2016. Salinity tolerance of early-stage oyster larvae in the Choptank River, Chesapeake Bay, USA . Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana .
Plummer, A.* , L. Plough and J. Pierson. 2015. Consequences of diversification among Acartia tonsa in the Chesapeake Bay. ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Granada, Spain .

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REU NEWS

Eight students will be presenting the summer work at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in March 2022!
2019 REUs presented at the CERF Conference in Mobile, AL
Olivia Saliger won a student presentation awards for talk at the 2019 Coastal Estuarine Research Federation Meeting. Her REU mentor was Judy O'Neil.
Congratulations to 2015 REU Alison Aceves for being selected as an honorable mention in the 2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program competition.
In February 2016, seven REUs from the 2015 cohort presented their research findings at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Congratulations to 2015 REU Hope Ianiri on receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2016)!
Jeanette Davis, Ph.D. (REU '06) published a children's book, Science is Everywhere.
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