Dr. Tilottama Roy, assistant professor of biology at Missouri Western State University, has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant of $863,000 to fund undergraduate student research into the evolution and diversification of a group of mint plants that include numerous species that have been federally listed as endangered.
The three-year grant for $800,000 will fund a project by Dr. Roy and Dr. Charlotte Lindqvist, associate professor of biology at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York, titled “A phylogenomic study of a hyper-diverse flowering plant lineage, subfamily Lamioideae (Lamiaceae).” Part of the NSF’s Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) program, the funds will allow 12 Missouri Western students to actively participate in the research project.
The grant is the third-largest NSF research grant in Missouri Western’s history.
