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Outstanding Young Faculty Member Award

Outstanding Teaching Apprentice

Genetics Graduate Student Association Symposium

Best Presentation Award

American Society of Plant Biologists

Virginia Academy of Science

Ethylene involvement in the regulation of the H+-ATPase CsHA1 gene and of the new isolated ferric reductase CsFRO1 and iron transporter CsIRT1 genes in cucumber plants

Novel functional roles for PERIANTHIA and SEUSS during floral organ identity specification, floral meristem termination, and gynoecial development

Transcriptomic Characterization of a Synergistic Genetic Interaction during Carpel Margin Meristem Development in Arabidopsis thaliana

Student Misconceptions about Plants – A First Step in Building a Teaching Resource

The Arabidopsis thaliana GRF-INTERACTING FACTOR gene family plays an essential role in control of male and female reproductive development

Dr. Wynn is a plant geneticist by training and is interested in research examining the intersection of genetic regulatory networks for seed and flower formation with plant response to environmental stress. Working on a family of genes responsible for flower formation and ovule (seed precursor) development is exciting work – especially when the genes are named after Dr. Wynn’s favorite childhood book author, Dr. Seuss! Using the model plant system, Arabidopsis thaliana, Dr. Wynn aims to understand the effects of environmental conditions on ovule size and development by looking at the role transcription factors play in regulating flower patterning genes. Transcription factors are like light switches for genes – they turn other genes on, off, or up/down. In this way they are useful in helping plants to respond to changes in their environment, including day length, temperature and drought.

Genetic Regulation

Developmental Genetics

Plant Genetics

Molecular Biology

Common Experience Encourages Critical Thinking, Connections

Podcasts on UMW Activism Spell ‘Good Trouble’ for Students

Professors Pool Resources to Focus on ‘Compelling Courses’

Wynn Named Faculty Director of the First Year Experience

Wynn Publishes Work on Student Misconceptions about Plants

Assistant Professor

Meet Dr. April Wynn, Director of the First Year Experience, and peer mentor for Dr. Wynn’s First Year Seminar, Katie Warlick. They chat with Associate Director, Sarah Lindberg about one of the first courses you will register for as an enrolling student.
 
We caught up with Dr. April Wynn in the Jepson Science Center where students are hard at work conducting undergraduate research and Dr. Wynn also a professor of biology. 
 
Here is a link to all of our First Year Seminar (FSEM) offerings for this coming fall: https://academics.umw.edu/fsem/.  Students ready to confirm their place at UMW are already choosing their top choices of FSEMs.  If you are ready, visit www.umw.edu/youarein to submit your deposit and begin your next steps to enroll at Mary Washington. Take your next steps before Destination UMW and you may receive your First Year Seminar and learn about where you will live on campus this fall (if residential) during your campus visit!

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