Kang Lab at Texas State University

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.

Dr. Kang has received Presidential Research Award in September 2020, which gave him a one-year-long development leave. Due to COVID, unfortunately, he has stayed in a remote office somewhere on campus.

Sebastian’s project entitled “Shedding Light on Mobile tRNA in Plant Biotic Stress” was virtually presented at Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair in 2020.