Our first tRF paper is published
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…
Author: Hong-Gu Kang
Good luck, Dinesh!
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!
A new paper accepted: Arabidopsis MORC1 and MED9 interact to regulate defense gene expression and plant fitness
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.
Farewell and Best Wishes to Sophie on Her Graduate Journey
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.
Dinesh achieves another milestone: Thesis defense completed successfully.
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 successfully cleared all the qualifying exams and is now officially a Ph.D. candidate.
Padam has fulfilled all the requirements to become a Ph.D. candidate after successfully presenting his thesis proposal and meeting all necessary criteria.
Dinesh was honored with the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award
Congratulations to Dinesh for being awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award by the Graduate College in recognition of his research accomplishments.
Our new Pseudomonas strain getting some news coverage
https://www.azolifesciences.com/news/20210716/New-technique-to-quantify-resistance-levels-of-plants-to-microbial-pathogens.aspx
Dinesh’s paper published
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.
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.