Application open December 1, 2022 – January 15, 2023 Program Dates: May 30 – August 4, 2023 (10 weeks)Salary and Housing: $5000 ($500/week). For participants from outside Fargo, housing will be provided on NDSU campus.Travel: Travel funds are available upon request on a first come, first served basis. The Bowsher and Greenlee Labs in the…

Madison Floden is a M.S. Biology student at North Dakota State University.  Her expertise includes Megachile rotundata in vitro rearing and treatments, Micro-cell DSC, Glycerol assays, Triglyceride assays, and Microelectrodes.  Madison is currently finishing research on Megachile rotundata and preparing to transition to the sugar beet root maggot and microelectrode ion research pre and post…

Alex Torson is a Research Computational Biologist at the USDA-ARS in Fargo, North Dakota.  His expertise includes transcriptomics, bioinformatics and insect physiology.  Most of his current projects focus on the transcriptional regulation of diapause and cold tolerance in many economically important insects including the alfalfa leafcutting bee, Megachile rotundata.  Alex says his dream project would include breaking…

George Boateng-Sarfo is a Graduate Research Assistant at North Dakota State University.  In the past, George has worked as a Biomedical Research Scientist at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research and the US Naval Medical Research Unit-3, Ghana Detachment. As a member of the Next-Generation Sequencing core team, he worked on identifying pathogens that cause Acute…