Sara Gremillion | Faculty Fellow
Office: 114W Frazier Jelke |  Phone: 843-3699  | Email: gremillions@rhodes.edu

Education

Ph.D. in Plant Pathology. University of Georgia, Athens, GA (2007)
B.A. in Biology. Hendrix College, Conway, AR (2001)


Courses

  • Biology 105 – MOLDS AND MUSHROOMS: A SURVEY OF FUNGI (non-majors)
    Biology 140 – BIOLOGY II
    Biology/Chemistry 310 – METHODS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY
    Biology 451 - RESEARCH IN BIOLOGY 
    Biology 485 – Senior Seminar: Phytopathology


Selected Publications

Woodward, J.E., Gremillion, S.K., Brock, D.B., Kemerait, R.C., Langston, J.H., and
Williams-Woodward, J.L. 2006. Lilium lancifolium is discovered as a new host of Botryosphaeria parva in Georgia. Plant Health Progress, doi:10.1094/PHP-2006-1127-02-BR.

Boyer, A.G., Swearingen, R.E., Blah, M.A., Fortson, C.T., Gremillion, S.K., Osborn, K.A., and Moran, M.D. 2003. Seasonal variation in top-down and bottom-up processes in a grassland arthropod community.  Oecologia, 136:309-316.

Abstracts

Gremillion, S.K., Culbreath, A.K., Todd, J.W., Gorbet, D.W., and Pittman, R. Early season leaf spot progress in the Bolivian cultivar Bayo Grande and related progeny in the Southeastern United States. 2006 Proceedings of the American Peanut Research and Education Society vol. 38 pg. 48.

Gremillion, S.K., Culbreath, A.K., Todd, J.W., Gorbet, D.W., and Pittman, R. 2006.  Durability of Leaf Spot Resistance in Advanced Peanut Breeding Lines in North and South America. 2005 Proceedings of the American Peanut Research and Education Society vol. 38 p. 36.

Gremillion, S.K., Culbreath, A.K., Todd, J.W., Gorbet, D.W., and Pittman, R. 2005.
Stability of response of advanced peanut breeding lines and Bolivian Bayo  
Grande to leaf spot and tomato spotted wilt at multiple locations. Phytopathology
95:S175.

Gremillion, S.K., Culbreath, A.K., Todd, J.W., Gorbet, D.W., Pittman, R., and Kucharek, T. 2004. Influence of new breeding lines and tillage on peanut rust (Puccinia arachidis). Phytopathology 94:S168.

Culbreath, A.K., Gremillion, S.K., Todd, J.W., Gorbet, D.W., and Pittman, R. 2004.  Suppression of Peanut Leaf Spot with Tillage Practices, Resistant Genotypes and Reduced Fungicide Regimes. 2003 Proceedings of the American Peanut Research and Education Society vol. 35 p. 31.

PRESENTATIONS

Gremillion, S., Loprete, D., Hill, T., Camara, K., * Samuels, F.* and Mercer, S.* A mutation in a COG4 homologue affects polarity establishment in Aspergillus nidulans.  Invited seminar, 2008 Mycological Society of America Conference, College Park, PN, USA.   *Indicates undergraduate student