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Dr. Diane Byers

Associate Professor Emeritus
School of Biological Sciences
Office
Science Laboratory Building - SLB 424
Office Hours
By Appointment or see your syllabus for my current hours
  • About
  • Education
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Biography

University of WI - Madison B.S. in Botany
Rutgers University - New Brunswick - MS and PhD in Plant Biology
University of Minn. St. Paul - postdoc in Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics

Current Courses

499.113Independent Research For The Master's Thesis Last Term

499.213Independent Research For The Master's Thesis Last Term

Teaching Interests & Areas

Biological Evolution, Biostatistics, Conservation Biology, Ecology, Plant Biology

Research Interests & Areas

Plant Pollinator Interactions, Evolution of Plant Breeding Systems, Plant Soil Microbial Interactions, Bee Diversity in Fragmented Prairies, Evolution in Fragmented, Heterogeneous and Changing Environments

Post-Doc Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics

University of Minnestoa

Ph D Plant Biology

Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ

MS Botany

Rutgers University
New Brunswick. NJ

BS Botany

University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI

Journal Article

Byers, D.L. 2000. Impact of prairie fragment size on proportion of females and reproductive success of Lobelia spicata Lam., a gynodioecious species. Plant Biology 22: 137-145.

Sapir, Y., J. Brunet, D.L. Byers, E. Imbert, J. Schönenberger and Y. Staedler. 2019. Floral evolution: Breeding systems, pollinators, and beyond. International Journal of Plant Sciences 180: 929-933.

Byers, D.L. 2017. Studying plant-pollinator interaction in a changing climate: A review of approaches. Applications in Plant Sciences 5(6): 1700012. https://doi.org/10.3732/apps.1700012.
Byers, D.L. and S.-M. Chang. 2017. Studying plant-pollinator interactions facing climate change and changing environments: approaches. Applications in Plant Sciences 5(6): 1700052. https://doi.org/10.3732/apps.1700052.
Robinson, J., Howard, C., Pastuzyn, E., Byers, D., Keefe, K., & Garris, P. Methamphetamine-induced neurotoxicity disrupts pharmacologically evoked dopamine transients in the dorsomedial and dorsolateral striatum. Neurotoxicity Research 26.2 (2014): 152-167.

Presentations

Does the invisible belowground determine the visible aboveground: Prairie plant species' responses to plant-soil microbial interactions.. Botany 2021. Botanical Society of America and others. (2021)
2017 Byers, D.L., T.M. Rippel, and R.W. Philips. Soil traits impacts on female frequency of a gynodioecious prairie plant, Lobelia spicata., Evolution 2017
2017 Philips, R.W. and D.L. Byers. Does habitat specific seed sources result in differential success of Chamaecrista fasciculata in a restored tallgrass prairie?, Evolution 2017
A test of soil nitrogen levels as sex specific selection on Lobelia spicata. Phi Sigma and School of Biological Sciences Annual Research Synposium. Phi Sigma and School of Biological Sciences. (2015)
An introduction to IPBB symposium. Integrative Plant Biology and Bioenergy Symposium. (2015)
Chamaecrista fasciculata in Sand vs. Tallgrass Prairies. Integrative Plant Biology and Bioenergy Symposium. School of Biological Sciences. (2015)
Combining The Ecological Dynamics of Aboveground and Belowground Processes. International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology; Education and Research. (2015)
Differential Selection for Competitive Ability in Chamaecrista fasciculata. Phi Sigma and School of Biological Sciences Annual Research Synposium. Phi Sigma and School of Biological Sciences. (2015)
Differential selection for competitive ability in Chamaecrista fasciculata. International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology; Education and Research. (2015)
Sex ratio, pollinators and the consequences for reproduction in Lobelia spicata. Eastern IL State Dept of Biology Seminar Series. (2015)

Grants & Contracts

Addition of Hands-on, Minds-on Activities to Two Non- Laboratory Biology Courses. CTLT. Illinois State University. (2015)
Consequences of a fragmented prairie landscape for pollinator visitation and seed set in Lobelia spicata (pale-spiked Lobelia). Prairie Biotic Research Inc.. Private. (2008)