The greenhouse is a 9,625 square foot hidden gem located on the roof of the NWQ Building Complex. The state-of-the-art facility maximizes research capability and provides an open, flexible environment for botanical instruction, supporting both undergraduate and graduate education and cutting-edge NSF funded research.
The facility is divided into 3 wings, with 18 separate rooms and includes an expanded head house utilized as both a potting area and a classroom, modern wet lab space, a vibration lab, 4 instructional houses, 1 propagation house, 6 research houses, a cold room, an office and student lounge, and greenhouse support spaces, with an additional 1,200 square feet of outdoor planting beds available for research and instruction.
The diverse instructional plant collection comprises approximately 672 species representing over 100 plant families, showcasing a range of plant biodiversity, evolution and adaptation, with specimens representing lower vascular plant lineages, to cycads, to a strong representation of flowering plants. The greenhouse maintains a collection of native plants which is supplemented by 270 tree and shrub species planted throughout the campus. An 11-acre conservancy area on campus is also available for study. Lapham Hall houses 17 plant growth, insect, environmental or cold chambers for research and instructional use.
For questions or to visit, please contact Greenhouse Manager Paul Engevold at 414-229-4248, or via email (preferred) at engevold@uwm.edu.
The Biological Sciences Greenhouse facility houses both long-term research, supporting the work of faculty members, and short-term projects for undergraduate and graduate student research.
Recent research publications include:
Townley RA, Stacy KS, Cheraghi F, de la Cova CC. The Raf/LIN-45 C-terminal distal tail segment negatively regulates signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics. 2024. 228(3):iyae152. DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyae152
Rodriguez Torres CS, Wicker NB, Puccini de Castro V, Stefinko M, Bennett DC, Bernhardt B, Garcia Montes de Oca M, Jallow S, Flitcroft K, Palalay JS, Payán Parra OA, Stern YE, Koelle M, Voisine Cindy, Woods IG, Lo T, Stern MJ, de la Cova CC. The Caenorhabditis elegans protein SOC-3 permits an alternative mode of signal transduction by the EGL-15 FGF receptor. Developmental Biology. 2024. 516:183-195. DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2024.08.014.
Chowdhury TA, Luy DA, Farache D, Lee ASY, Quinn CC (2024). Ortholog of autism candidate gene RBM27 regulates mitoribosomal assembly factor MALS-1 to protect against mitochondrial dysfunction and axon degeneration during neurodevelopment. PLoS Biology 22(10): e3002876.
Kodra AL, Sharma Singh A, de la Cova C, Ziosi M, Johnston LA*. The Drosophila TNF Eiger promotes Myc super-competition independent of canonical JNK signaling. Genetics. 2024. iyae107. DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyae107.
Drozd CJ, Chowdhury TC, Quinn CC. (2024) UNC-16 interacts with LRK-1 and WDFY-3 to regulate the termination of axon growth. Genetics, iyae053.
Welmillage SU, James EK, Tak N, Shedge S, Huang L, Muszyński A, Azadi P, Gyaneshwar P.0.A rhamnose-rich O-antigen of Paraburkholderia phymatum MP20 is required for symbiosis with Mimosa pudica. J Bacteriol0:e00422-24.https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.00422-24
Townley R, Deniaud A, Stacy KS, Rodriguez Torres CS, Cheraghi F, Wicker NB, de la Cova CC. The E3/E4 ubiquitin ligase UFD-2 suppresses normal and oncogenic signaling mediated by a Raf ortholog in Caenorhabditis elegans. Sci Signal. 2023. 16(800):eabq4355. DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.abq4355.
Ketelboeter, L.M., Gordon, A., Welmillage, S.U. , Sreevidya, V. S., Paliy O., Gyaneshwar P. Transcriptomic and physiological responses of Rhizobium sp. IRBG74 to Sesbania cannabina and rice (Oryza sativa L) rhizosphere. Plant Soil 483, 515–532 (2023)
Ketelboeter LM, Mitra S, Gyaneshwar P. A thiamine transporter is required for biofilm formation by Rhizobium sp. IRBG74. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2023 Jan 17;370:fnad046. doi: 10.1093/femsle/fnad046. PMID: 37253601.
Dues DJ, Nguyen APT, Becker K, Ma J and Moore DJ. "Hippocampal subfield vulnerability to α-Synuclein pathology precedes neurodegeneration and cognitive dysfunction." NPJ Parkinson's Disease, Aug 29;9(1):125, 2023.
de la Cova CC. The Highs and Lows of FBXW7: New Insights into Substrate Affinity in Disease and Development. Cells. 2023. 12(17):2141. DOI: 10.3390/cells12172141.
Drozd CJ, Quinn CC (2023) UNC-116 and UNC-16 function with the NEKL-3 kinase to promote axon targeting.Development, 150(18): dev201654.
Shelton WR, Mitchell RJ, Christopher DA, Jack LP and Karron JD. 2023. Among‐individual variation in flowering phenology affects flowering synchrony and mating opportunity. American Journal of Botany doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16269
Castorani, Max C., Reed, Daniel, Raimondi, Peter, Alberto, Filipe A., Bell, Tom W., Cavanaugh, kyle C., Siegel, David A., and Simmons, Rachel D.“Fluctuations in population fecundity drive variation in demographic connectivity and metapopulation dynamics” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B().
Hinow, Peter, Strickler, J. R., and Yen, Jeannette. “Olfaction in a viscous environment: The "color" of sexual smells in Temora longicornis” The Science of Nature (Naturwissenschaften)().
Hutz, Reinhold J.“Familiar and novel reproductive endocrine disruptors: xenoestrogens, dioxins and nanoparticles” Current Trends in Endocrinology().
Gajeski, Katie, , Hutz, Reinhold J., and . “Fish consumption patterns of African-Americn subsistence fishers in milwaukee and multi-method risk:benefit communication” Environmental Research().
Larson, Jeremy K., , Hutz, Reinhold J., and . “Reproductive nanotoxicology: current developments and future diretions” Biology of Reproduction().
Berges, John A., Young, Erica B., Thamatrakoln, Kimberlee, and Taylor, Alison R.“Chapter 14: From genes to ecosystems: using molecular information from diatoms to understand ecological processes” Advances in Phytoplankton Ecology: Applications of Emerging Technologies(2022).
Berges, John A., Young, Erica B., Thamatrakoln, Kimberlee, and Taylor, Alison R. “Chapter 14: From genes to ecosystems: using molecular information from diatoms to understand ecological processes” Advances in Phytoplankton Ecology: Applications of Emerging Technologies (2022).
Dey, Madhusudan, and Uppala, Jagadeesh K.“Pull-down of Biotinylated RNA and Associated Proteins” Bio-Protocol(2022).
Strzepek, Robert, Nunn, Brook, Bach, Lennart, Berges, John A., Young, Erica B., and Boyd, Philip. “The ongoing need for rates: can physiology and omics come together to co-design the measurements needed to understand complex ocean biogeochemistry?” Journal of Plankton Researchfbac026. (2022).
Young, Erica B., Reed, Lindsay A., and Berges, John A.“Growth parameters and responses of green algae across a gradient of phototrophic, mixotrophic and heterotrophic conditions” PEER J(2022).
Fremin, Brayon J., Bhatt, Ami S., Kyrpides, Nikos C., Global Phage Small Open Reading Frame (GP-SmORF) Consortium, , and Young, Erica B.“Thousands of small, novel genes predicted in global phage genomes” Cell Reports39. (2022): 110984.
Grothjan, Jacob J., and Young, Erica B.“Bacterial recruitment to carnivorous pitcher plant communities: identifying sources influencing plant microbiome composition and function” Frontiers in Microbiology13. (2022): 10.3389/fmicb.2022.791079.
Strzepek, Robert, Nunn, Brook, Bach, Lennart, Berges, John A., Young, Erica B., and Boyd, Philip. “The ongoing need for rates: can physiology and omics come together to co-design the measurements needed to understand complex ocean biogeochemistry?” Journal of Plankton Research fbac026. (2022).
Young, Erica B., Reed, Lindsay A., and Berges, John A. “Growth parameters and responses of green algae across a gradient of phototrophic, mixotrophic and heterotrophic conditions” PEER J (2022).
Gareis, J A., Larson , E I., Ardón , M, Berges, John A., Brandt , J E., Busch, K M., Chraibi, V L., Gallagher, E N., Hondula , K L., Kincaid , D W., Levine , T D., Little , C J., Nodine , E R., Rock, A M., Shogren , A J., and Vanni , M J. “Using Wikipedia Assignments to Teach Critical Thinking and Scientific Writing in STEM Courses” Frontiers in Education 7. (2022): 905777.
Uppala, Jagadeesh K., Sathe, Leena , and Dey, Madhusudan. “The Cap-proximal Secondary Structure Inhibits Translational Inhibition by Precluding Helicase eIF4A Recruitment on HAC1 mRNA” Journal of Biological Chemistry(2022).
Fernández B, Chittoor-Vinod V, Kluss J, Kelly K, Bryant N, Nguyen APT, Bukhari S, Smith N, Ordóñez A, Fdez E, Chartier-Harlin M, Wilson M, Montine T., Moore DJ, West AB, Cookson M, Nichols J and Hilfiker S. "Evaluation of current methods to detect cellular Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) kinase activity." Journal of Parkinson's Disease, May 20, 2022.
Fischer NC, Friedman V, Martinez-Reyes MA, Hao H, Chowdhury TA, Starr DA, Quinn CC (2022) The ANC-1(Nesprin-1/2) organelle-anchoring protein functions through mitochondria to polarize axon growth in response to SLT-1.PLoS Genetics, 18(11): e1010521.
Welmillage SU, Zhang Q, Sreevidya VS, Sadowsky MJ, Gyaneshwar P. Inoculation of Mimosa Pudica with Paraburkholderia phymatum Results in Changes to the Rhizoplane Microbial Community Structure. Microbes Environ. 2021;36(1):ME20153
Hoikkala, V., Ravantti, J., Díez-Villaseñor, C., Tiirola, M., Conrad, Rachel A., McBride, Mark J., Moineau, S., and Sundberg, Lotta R.“Cooperation between different CRISPR-Cas types enables adaptation in an RNA-targeting system” mBio12. (2021): e03338-20.
Christopher DA, Karron JD, Semski WR, Smallwood PA, Trapnell DW, Mitchell RJ. 2021. Selfing rates vary with floral display, pollinator visitation and plant density in natural populations of Mimulus ringens. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 34: 803-815 doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13781
Lorencik, Katarzyna, Ekiert, Robert, Zhu, Yongtao, McBride, Mark J., Gennis, Robert B., Sarewicz, Marcin, and Osyczka, Artur. “The monoheme c subunit of respiratory alternative complex III is not essential for electron transfer to cytochrome aa3 in Flavobacterium johnsoniae” Microbiology Spectrum9. (2021): e00135-21.
Bittleston, Leonora, Freedman, Zachary, Bernadin, Jessica, Grothjan, Jacob J., Young, Erica B., Record, Sydne, Baiser, Benjamin, and Gray, Sarah. “Exploring microbiome functional dynamics through space and time with trait-based theory” mSystems6.4 (2021): e00530-21.
Berges, John A., Driskill, Allison M., Guinn, Emily J., Pokrzywinski, Kaytee, Quinlan, Jessica, von Korff, Benjamin, and Young, Erica B.“Role of nearshore benthic algae in the Lake Michigan silica cycle” PLOS one16.8 (2021): e0256838.
Berges, John A., Driskill, Allison M., Guinn, Emily J., Pokrzywinski, Kaytee, Quinlan, Jessica, von Korff, Benjamin, and Young, Erica B. “Role of nearshore benthic algae in the Lake Michigan silica cycle” PLOS one 16.8 (2021): e0256838.
Dey, Madhusudan , and Uppala, Jagadeesh. “Vps34 and Tor Kinases Coordinate HAC1 mRNA Translation in the Presence of Absence of Ire1-dependent Splicing. Molecular and Cellular Biology 2021 Jun 23; 41 (7): e0066220. 10.1128/MCB.00662-20 4. Ghosh, C., et al. Dey, M* (2021). Phosphorylation of Pal2 by the Protein Kinases Kin1 and Kin2 Modulates HAC1 mRNA splicing in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Unfolded Protein Response” Molecular and Cellular Biology(2021).
George, Jasmine, Dey, Madhusudan, and Chaluvally-Raghavan, Pradeep. “FXR1 drives cMYC translation in ovarian cancer through binding to AU-rich elements within cMYC transcripts” Cell ReportsNov 2;37(5. (2021): 109934.
Ghosh, Chandrima, Uppala, Jagadeesh K., and Dey, Madhusudan. “Phosphorylation of Pal2 by the Protein Kinases Kin1 and Kin2 Modulates HAC1 mRNA splicing in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Unfolded Protein Response” Science Signaling(2021).
Karron JD, Christopher DA and Semski WR. 2021. Pollen transport: Illuminating a key mechanism of disassortative pollination. Current Biology 31: 893-895. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.05.050
Christopher DA, Mitchell RJ, Karron JD. 2020. Pollination intensity and paternity in flowering plants, Annals of Botany 125: 1–9. doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcz159
Barbier, Paul, Rochat, Tatiana, Mohammed, Haitham H., Wiens, Gregory D., Bernardet, Jean-Francois, Halpern, David, Duchaud, Eric, and McBride, Mark J.“The type IX secretion system is required for virulence of the fish pathogen Flavobacterium psychrophilum” Applied and Environmental Microbiology86. (2020): 1-22.
Wang, Zixuan, He, Zhen, and Young, Erica B.“Toward enhanced performance of integrated photo-bioelectrochemical systems: Taxa and functions in bacteria-algae communities” Current Opinions in Chemical Biology59. (2020): 130-139.
Nayfach, Stephen, Young (part of IMG consortium), Erica B., ., and Eloe-Fadrosh, Emiley. “A Genomic Catalogue of Earth’s Microbiomes” Nature Biotechnology(2020).
Donnelly, Alison C., Yu, Rong, Rheberg, Chloe, Meyer, Gretchen A., and Young, Erica B.“Leaf chlorophyll estimates of temperate deciduous shrubs during autumn senescence using a SPAD-502 meter and calibration with extracted chlorophyll” Annals of Forest Sciences77.30 (2020).
Luo, Shuai, Waller, Lucas, Badgely, Brian, He, Zhen, and Young, Erica B.“Effects of bacterial inoculation and nitrogen loading on bacterial-algal consortium composition and functions in an integrated photobioelectrochemical system” Science of The Total Environment716. (2020): 137135.
Oyler-McCance, Sara, Latch, Emily K., and Leberg, Paul. “Conservation genetics and molecular ecology in wildlife management” The Wildlife Techniques Manual8th edition. Johns Hopkins University Press. (2020): Chapter 25.
Latch, Emily K.“Integrating genomics into conservation management” Molecular Ecology Resources(2020).