Isabella won 5th place in International Science Fair (Biochem)
In May 2018, Isabella, a San Marco High School sophomore student, won 5th place in International Science Fair – Biochemistry Category. She also won the US Air Force award. Congrats!
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2018 Annual meeting of Southern Section in American Society of Plant Biologists
On March 24-26, 2018, Kang lab members participated in the southern section meeting of ASPB. The meeting was held in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dinesh presented a short seminar and, SungIl and Ji-Chul presented a poster.
Isabella claimed first-place in Texas State Science Fair and advanced to Intel International Science and Engineering Fair to be held in Pittsburgh
San Marcos High School student Isabella Elmore competed and won the first place at the Texas Science and Engineering Fair’s two-day event in San Antonio the weekend of March 22. Isabella competed in the Life Science division…
San Marcos School District Science Showcase
This year, San Marcos School District hosted the first science showcase on Jan 20. This event was to honor the campus science fair winners. Dr. Kang introduced our outreach program for a high school student.…
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Yogendra became a married man.
Yogendra and Hallie got married on December 23, 2017. Congratulations and we all wish both a lifetime happiness.
Yogendra became Dr. Bordiya
Yogendra, the first Ph.D. student in the lab, successfully defended his thesis entitled “Epigenetic regulation of the defense gene induction in Arabidopsis thaliana in response to Pseudomonas syringae” on November 3, 2017. His committee consists…
Dr. Kang has been tenured and promoted to Associate Professor with a college award.
Starting in September, 2017, Dr. Kang has been tenured and promoted to Associate Professor. He also received a college achievement award for the excellence in scholarly/creative activities.
Yogendra received a travel grant for 2017 ICAR meeting
Yogendra received a travel grant for 28th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research this summer. He presented a poster entitled “Pathogen Infection and MORC1 Affect Chromatin Accessibility of Transposable Elements and Expression of Their Proximal Genes…
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Welcoming and farewell party – June 2017
We have three undergrad students leaving for the new adventure as follows. We sincerely thank them for the contribution: Nicole: Ph.D studentship, Biochem & Molecular Biology, University of Florida Kinsey: M.S. studentship, College of Health…
The lab will move to new building in June 2018
In June 2018, Kang lab will move to a new building, Engineering and Science Building. The lab and student office at over 1,200 sq ft will be situated on the top floor overlooking downtown San Marcos.