Ursula Röse invited to speak at the Gordon Research Conference ‘Plant Volatiles’

Ursula Röse, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Biology, was an invited speaker at the Gordon Research Conference “Plant Volatiles,” which was held January 26-31, 2014, in Ventura, California.

Röse’s talk on the "Inducibility of Volatile and Non-Volatile Compounds in Brown Macroalgae and Their Effect on Herbivore Behavior" included her work with two undergraduate student co-authors, Janithri Wickranamayake (Biology ‘14) and former undergraduate student Kyle Martin (Biology ’13), who is currently working on his Ph.D. in plant biology at Cornell University.

Röse’s research focuses on Fucus vesiculosus, a brown macroalgae in the intertidal zone in Biddeford Pool, and snail and isopod herbivores that induce the emission of halocarbons as well as non-volatile compounds.