Biology

Michael Schiebout

Professor of Biology

Office: WH 135, 731-661-6599
mschiebout@uu.edu

Mailing Address:
1050 Union University Dr
Jackson, TN 38305

University Profile Scholarship Profile

Undergraduate Research Supervised

• Heather Vidal. Comparison of Quercus populations by DNA barcode analysis (Fall 2015)
  
• Hannah Small. Taxonomic assignment of oak species in southern Tennessee utilizing PCR gene amplification and sequencing (Spring 2015)
• Mark Kartzinel. Assessing the effects of priority growth and competition of Microstegium vimineum on Monarda fistulosa (Spring 2013)

Presentations

• Bowden J., Mercker D., Schiebout M.H. The Effect of Soil Moisture Content on the Growth of Eight Quercus Species in a Bottomland Community of West Tennessee. Ecological Society of America's Annual Meeting in Louisville, KY, August 2019
• Olson O., Dieppa A., Oritz M., Kerfoot J., and Schiebout M. The influence of environmental parameters on the vegetational characteristics of Thalassia testudinum communities in Jobo's Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Aguirre, Puerto Rico. Ecological Society of America's Annual Meeting in Louisville, KY, August 2019
• Schiebout M.H., Franklin S., and Šibík J. Classification of Pawnee National Grasslands: Challenges of fitting locally-geographic plot-based classifications into the USNVC. Ecological Society of America's Annual Meeting in Portland, OR, August 2017
• Bilbrey E. and Schiebout M.H. DNA Barcoding of Quercus margaretta from TN to Validate Morphological Identification and to Determine Efficacy of Different Barcoding Regions to Determine Quercus Species Resolution. 78th Annual Association of Southeastern Biologists Meeting, Montgomery, AL, March 2017
• Vidal H. and Schiebout M.H. Comparison and phylogenetic classification of Quercus margaretta populations by DNA barcode analysis. 77th Annual Association of Southeastern Biologists Meeting, Charlotte, NC, April 2016
• Small H., Vidal H., and Schiebout M.H. Taxonomic assignment of oak species in southern Tennesse utilizing PCR gene sequencing. 76th Annual Association of Southeastern Biologist Meeting, Chattanooga, TN, April 2015
• Schiebout M.H. and Franklin S. Investigating competitive inhibition for Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense) and cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) by comparing their response in relation to functionality and nativeness. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN. August 2013.
• Franklin, S.B., Amber B., and Schiebout M. Community classification of the Pawnee National Grasslands, shortgrass steppe, USA. International Association of Vegetation Science, Tartu, Estonia. June 2013
• Schiebout M.H., Filimban N.I., Bullard K., Keenan S.M. Understanding Plasmodium falciparumresistance to the kinse inhibitor GW5074. Keystone Symposia Drug Discovery for Protozoan Parasites. Breckenridge, CO. March 2009
• Schiebout M.H. and Keenan S.M. Prediction of mutations in Plasmodium falciparum kinases in response to small molecule inhibitors. Molecular Approaches to Malaria Conference, Lourne, Australia. February 2008
• Schiebout M.H., Miles J., Pfeif C., and Tschillard R. Assessing ecological change at the Poudre Learning Center through field research and communication of this research to the broader community. Front Range Student Ecology Symposium. Colorado State University. February 2008

Publications

• Schiebout, M., and Franklin, Scott B. In Press-2014. Response of Steppe Riparian Areas to the Exclusion of Cattle Grazing: Comparison at Different Spatial and Temporal Scales. Southwestern Naturalist 59.
• Hazlett D.L., Schiebout M.H., and Ford P.L. 2009 Vascular plants and a brief history species of the Kiowa and Rita Blanca National Grasslands. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-233. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 44p.
• Schiebout M.H., Hazlett D.L., and Snow N. 2008. A floristic survey of vascular plants over parts of Northeastern New Mexico. Jornal of Bot. Res. Inst. of Texas. 2:1407-1448.

Grants and Fellowships

• International Program Development Grant Award Union University, (Spring 2017)
• Teacher in Residence Fellowship. National Science Foundation (2010-2011)
• NHS Student Research Fund Recipient. University of Northern Colorado (2010)
• GAANN Fellowship. University of Northern Colorado Biology Department (2008-2009)
• GK-12 Fellowship. National Science Foundation (2006-2008)
• Joan K Hunt and Rachel M. Hunt Summer Scholarship in Field Botany. The Garden Club of America (Summer 2005)
• Native Plant Society of New Mexico Grant. NPSNM (Summer 2005)
• Earthwatch Educator Fellow. Pantanal MG, Brazil (2001)

Professional Affiliations

• Ecological Society of America
• Native Plant Society of Colorado
• Tennessee Academy of Sciences