Kang Lab at Texas State University

Tanzila successfully defended her thesis, entitled “Development of a Transgenic System for Overexpressing tRNA-Derived Small RNAs to Enhance Resistance in Plants.” Her work focused on establishing a transgenic approach to express our newly identified tRFs…

Continue Reading Tanzila has successfully defended her M.S. thesis and graduated—congratulations!

After a long journey, our first tRF paper is now published in Communications Biology—fittingly, on April Fool’s Day! You can find the paper at the link below. We’re deeply grateful to everyone who helped make…

Continue Reading Our first tRF paper is published

Dinesh will be joining Dr. Casteel’s lab at Cornell as a post-doc next month. We are grateful for his contributions to the research program and wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors!

Our manuscript describing the interplay between MORC1 and MED9 in balancing plant defense and fitness has just been accepted to Plant Pathology Journal! Congratulations to Ji Chul and all the coauthors.

Sophie, who has been with the lab for 2 and a half years, is moving to Arizona State University for her graduate studies. We celebrated her farewell and wish her all the best.

Last week, Dinesh successfully presented his Ph.D. thesis seminar entitled “Nuclear tRNA-derived RNA fragments (tRFs) trigger immunity in Arabidopsis and potentially function as a mobile signal in systemic acquired resistance” and successfully defended his thesis.…

Continue Reading Dinesh achieves another milestone: Thesis defense completed successfully.

Padam has fulfilled all the requirements to become a Ph.D. candidate after successfully presenting his thesis proposal and meeting all necessary criteria.

Congratulations to Dinesh for being awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award by the Graduate College in recognition of his research accomplishments.

https://www.azolifesciences.com/news/20210716/New-technique-to-quantify-resistance-levels-of-plants-to-microbial-pathogens.aspx

https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-12-20-0351-TA.  This newly developed strain allowed the automation of laborious resistance assay. Should you be interested in using the strains, please contact Dr. Kang directly.