Stress Genomics for Plant Health
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 and Hallie got married on December 23, 2017. Congratulations and we all wish both a lifetime happiness.
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…
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 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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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…
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.
Since last year, we and other labs in the department of biology have acquired several genomics tools. We are now running most of the genomics procedures on site and welcome any collaboration requests. Following is…
We celebrated successful completion of Phoenix’s science fair project with the Orta family. Mr Stedman and Yogi also came for celebration as well. Thanks everyone!
Phoenix, a freshmen from San Marcos High School, presented her science fair project last Friday in Alamo Regional Science Fair, entitled “CRISPR-CAS9, the most popular genome editing tool, led to a poor response to drought…
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