Dr. Mark Melton, dean of the School of Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering and associate professor of biology, along with his colleagues at North Carolina State University and Oakland University, had an article published online in the journal PLOS ONE, which is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication.

According to Melton, most of the work was done in Dr. Patricia Estes’, who served as the principal investigator, Laboratory of Genetics at North Carolina State.  However, work was done in the laboratories at Saint Augustine’s University.

“Some of the funding came from a National Science Foundation Grant that I wrote as a supplement to the existing grant at North Carolina State to support my summer research in the lab there from 2009-2011,” Melton said.

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