Plant Virus Biodiversity and Ecology

• Evidence for Novel Viruses by Analysis of Nucleic Acids in Virus-like Particle Fractions from Ambrosia psilostachya
  Ulrich Melcher, Vijay Muthukumar, Graham B. Wiley, Byoung Eun Min, Michael W. Palmer, Richard S. Nelson, Bruce A, Roe, Vaskar Thapa, Margaret L. Pierce. OKlahoma EPSCoR Annual Meeting, Norman OK, March 6-7, 2008 and American Society for Virology Meeting, July, 2008, Ithaca NY
• Plant Virus Biodiversity and Ecology at Oklahoma's Tallgrass Prairie
  Ulrich Melcher, Marilyn Roossinck, Michael Palmer, Bruce Roe, Jonathan Wren, Richard Nelson, Kay Scheets, Jeanmarie Verchot-Lubicz, Adam Zlotnick, Margaret Pierce. Ecological Genomics, Kansas City, MO. Nov. 5, 2005
• Identification of Viruses in the Tall Grass Prairie Preserve
  Veenita Grover, Vijay Muthukumar, Olga Blinkova, Fengqiu Zhang, Yan Song, Marlee Pierce, Ulrich Meicher. Tallgrass Prairie Preserve Retreat, March 9, 2006
• Double-Stranded RNA as a Tool to Assess the Presence of RNA Virus
  The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Plant Biology Division. Tallgrass Prairie Preserve Retreat, March 9, 2006

• Can cis-acting Elements in TBSV be used to Predict Similar Structures in Other Members of the Family Tombusviridae?
  Kay Sheets and Stephanie Shryock. Oklahoma EPSCoR Annual Meeting, Norman OK, May 18, 2006

• The Incidence and Diversity of Plant Viruses in the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve
  Vaskar Thapa, Ulrich Melcher, Daniel McGlinn, Marilyn Roossink, Drew Porter, Rita Marvelli, Tracy Feldman, and Michael Palmer. Ecological Society of America Meeting, Memphis TN

• Microarray, an exciting approach for surveying plants in natural settings for viruses.
  Ulrich Melcher, Veenita Grover, Fengqiu Zhang, Yan Song. Oklahoma EPSCoR Annual Meeting, Norman OK, May 18, 2006

• Methods for Surveying Plants in Natural Settings for Viruses
  Ulrich Melcher, Veenita Grover, Vijay Muthukumar, Fengqiu Zhang, Olga Blinkova, Margaret Pierce. American Phytopathological Society Annual Meeting, July 29 Aug. 2, 2006, Quebec City, Quebec

• Stalking Wild Viruses
  Ulrich Melcher and PVBE team. May 17, 2007 Oklahoma EPSCoR Annual Conference, Stillwater OK.

• Plant Virus Biodiversity. International Plant Virus Epidemiology Symposium, Hyderabad, India, October 15, 2007
• Plant Virus Ecology Research Coordination Network. U. Melcher, C. Malmström. International Plant Virus Epidemiology Symposium, Hyderabad, India, October 16, 2007

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