Research Interests

Morphological studies on prokaryotic and eukaryotic algae in culture; ultrastructural diversity of blue-green algae; the structural morphology and integration of valves and bands in diatoms; the brine shrimp as an experimental organism in studies of development.

Recent Publications

• Gouthro, M.A., Schmidt, K.K., Messaad, I.A, and Rosowski, J.R. Determining the percentage hatch of nauplii from brine shrimp cysts: a comparison of four procedures with a recommendation. J. World. Aqua. Soc. Accepted for publication with revision.
• Rosowski J.R., Bartels T.L., Colburn J.F, Colton J.L., Belk D., and Lee, K.W. 2000. Ultrastructure of the envelope of the cysts of the tadpole shrimp Triops longicaudatus (Branchiopoda: Notostraca). Microsc. Microanal. 6 (Suppl 2: Proceedings), in press.
• Rosowski, J.R., Shaffer, J.J., Martin, E. L. Kokjohn, T.A. and Lee, K.W. 1999. First report of a putative cyanophage, MC-1, of Microcoleus sp. Microsc. Microanal. 5 (Suppl 2: Proceedings), p.1142-1143.
• Yung, R., Gouthro, M.A. and Rosowski, J.R. 1999. The brine shrimp Artemia franciscana in closed microalgal-based microcosms (biospheres). Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences: 25: 39-52.
• Lee, K.W., Gouthro, M.A., Yoshimatsu, T. and Rosowski, J.R. 1998. An unusual bacterium the alimentary tract of the rotifer Brachionus rotundiformis (Rotifera). Proceedings of the 14th International Congress on Electron Microscopy, Cancun, Mex. Vol IV: 739-740.
• Mua, J.P., Rosowski, J.R. and Jackson, D.S. 1997. Initial phase solubilization of normal cornstarch by methyl sulfoxide (DMS0): evidence from scanning electron microscopy and size exclusion chromatography. Starch/Strke 49:401-407.