MTF Congratulates Dr. Emily Merewitz!
Dr. Emily Merewitz, currently an assistant professor of turfgrass physiology at Michigan State University, has received the Musser Award of Excellence for 2012. The award was in recognition of her doctoral work completed at Rutgers, The State University of NJ and consists of a $30k stipend. The Musser Foundation was created in 1969 in memory of Professor H. Burton Musser, who headed the Turfgrass Management program at Penn State University for three decades. The foundation’s mission is to generously support exceptional students destined to become the leaders of the turfgrass industry.
MTF Welcomes Dr. Emily Merewitz
The MSU Turf Team is very excited to announce that Dr. Emily Merewitz has been hired for the Turfgrass Molecular Physiologist position.
Dr. Merewitz began her appointment at MSU on August 16, 2012. Dr. Merewitz received her PhD from the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in 2012. Previously, in 2005 she earned two Bachelor of Science degrees from Rutgers University in Plant Science and Plant Biotechnology.
Dr. Merewitz has conducted research related to environmental stress physiology of turfgrasses under the direction of her thesis advisor Dr. Bingru Huang. Her primary research focus has been on understanding the responses of cool-season grasses such as creeping bentgrass and Kentucky bluegrass to abiotic stresses such as drought and heat stress. Her research experience has allowed her to gain skills in both a laboratory and field setting. She has used multiple research methods such as physiological, genomic, proteomic, and metabolomic analysis to understand abiotic stress tolerance mechanisms. This research has allowed her to publish 10 journal articles and 1 book chapter and she has actively participated in presentations during the annual conferences of the ASA-CSSA-SSSA and American Society for Horticultural Sciences. Her teaching experience includes being a teaching assistant for an advanced biotechnology course, Methods in Recombinant DNA at Rutgers, and she has also served as a head instructor of a Turfgrass Stress Physiology course in the Rutgers Professional Golf Turf Management School.
Several awards and accomplishments have been bestowed to her, such as the GCSAA’s James R. Watson fellowship funded by TORO and the Environmental Institute for Golf in 2010 and the Gerald O. Mott Meritorious Graduate Student in Crop Science Award and Scholarship in 2011. Additionally, she was recognized by the Rutgers Graduate School with the Dissertation Research Award in 2012.
Dr. Merewitz is now excited to join the faculty group at Michigan State University where she will continue to evaluate turfgrass responses to varied environmental conditions. She also looks forward to instructing the undergraduate Turfgrass Physiology course.
Dr. Merewitz began her appointment at MSU on August 16, 2012. Dr. Merewitz received her PhD from the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in 2012. Previously, in 2005 she earned two Bachelor of Science degrees from Rutgers University in Plant Science and Plant Biotechnology.
Dr. Merewitz has conducted research related to environmental stress physiology of turfgrasses under the direction of her thesis advisor Dr. Bingru Huang. Her primary research focus has been on understanding the responses of cool-season grasses such as creeping bentgrass and Kentucky bluegrass to abiotic stresses such as drought and heat stress. Her research experience has allowed her to gain skills in both a laboratory and field setting. She has used multiple research methods such as physiological, genomic, proteomic, and metabolomic analysis to understand abiotic stress tolerance mechanisms. This research has allowed her to publish 10 journal articles and 1 book chapter and she has actively participated in presentations during the annual conferences of the ASA-CSSA-SSSA and American Society for Horticultural Sciences. Her teaching experience includes being a teaching assistant for an advanced biotechnology course, Methods in Recombinant DNA at Rutgers, and she has also served as a head instructor of a Turfgrass Stress Physiology course in the Rutgers Professional Golf Turf Management School.
Several awards and accomplishments have been bestowed to her, such as the GCSAA’s James R. Watson fellowship funded by TORO and the Environmental Institute for Golf in 2010 and the Gerald O. Mott Meritorious Graduate Student in Crop Science Award and Scholarship in 2011. Additionally, she was recognized by the Rutgers Graduate School with the Dissertation Research Award in 2012.
Dr. Merewitz is now excited to join the faculty group at Michigan State University where she will continue to evaluate turfgrass responses to varied environmental conditions. She also looks forward to instructing the undergraduate Turfgrass Physiology course.