Faculty Profile
Andrew Newhouse
Senior Staff Assistant
Department of Environmental Biology
319 Illick Hall
Research Interests
I direct ESF's American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project and related tree restoration activities. My experience includes molecular biology lab work, environmental studies on transgenic trees, social considerations for the use of biotechnology in conservation, and federal biotechnology regulatory policy.
My team and I are currently studying restoration considerations for American chestnut, and working to apply biotechnological tools toward protecting other threatened trees such as Ozark chinquapin (also threatened by chestnut blight), American beech (Beech Leaf Disease), and American elm (Dutch elm disease and elm yellows). We are always looking for motivated undergraduate and graduate students to participate in this and related research!