Will McHargue

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Current advisor: Ram Dixit, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Missouri-Columbia, 2016

Enrollment year: 2020

Research summary

Graduate publications
Anderson CM, Mattoon EM, Zhang N, Becker E, McHargue W, Yang J, Patel D, Dautermann O, McAdam SAM, Tarin T, Pathak S, Avenson TJ, Berry J, Braud M, Niyogi KK, Wilson M, Nusinow DA, Vargas R, Czymmek KJ, Eveland AL, Zhang R. 2022 High light and temperature reduce photosynthetic efficiency through different mechanisms in the C 4 model Setaria viridis. Commun Biol, 4(1):1092. PMCID: PMC8446033

Kalra I, Wang X, Cvetkovska M, Jeong J, McHargue W, Zhang R, Hüner N, Yuan JS, Morgan-Kiss R. 2022 Chlamydomonas sp. UWO 241 Exhibits High Cyclic Electron Flow and Rewired Metabolism under High Salinity. Plant Physiol, 183(2):588-601. PMCID: PMC7271785

Zhang N, Mattoon EM, McHargue W, Venn B, Zimmer D, Pecani K, Jeong J, Anderson CM, Chen C, Berry JC, Xia M, Tzeng SC, Becker E, Pazouki L, Evans B, Cross F, Cheng J, Czymmek KJ, Schroda M, Mühlhaus T, Zhang R. 2022 Systems-wide analysis revealed shared and unique responses to moderate and acute high temperatures in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Commun Biol, 5(1):460. PMCID: PMC9106746