Anuli Onwumelu is a graduate of the SUNY-ESF undergraduate biotechnology program and the Forest Resources Management graduate program (MS). Her research interests predominantly involve studying plants, particularly plant physiology and forest ecology. For her MS thesis, Anuli worked with transgenic chestnut plants from the American Chestnut Project to study their metabolic performance through evaluation of parameters for respiration in the light, respiration in the dark, and photosynthesis.
Anuli is now working as a research technician at a biotech lab in New York City Anuli's summer research was supported by the Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation, which is an organization that provides funding to graduate students working to solve environmental issues in the world. Established in 1984 by Margaret Sussman in memory of her mother, the late Edna Bailey Sussman, the Sussman Foundation has long made tackling environmental issues a personal mission. Each year, the Sussman Foundation sponsors off-campus graduate summer research projects for students at eight member universities across the United States. We sincerely thank the Sussman Foundation for their generosity in supporting Anuli Onwumelu’s summer 2019 research into the impact of transgene expression on mitochondrial respiration in American chestnut plants at Pennsylvania State University. |