Author: Hong-Gu Kang

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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Dr. Kang will teach a new graduate course, BIO7360: Advanced genomics and bioinformatics, starting Fall 2017. This course will target graduate students who has experience in basic cluster computing tools and intend to provide hands-on experience…

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We are now transiting to LEAP Next-Generation High Performance Computing Cluster. This new computing server has 3,516 cores, nearly 6 times more than the current STAR cluster. More details can be found at the following site: http://www.vpit.txstate.edu/rc/leap.html.

Dr. Sung Il Kim joined the lab in September as a post-doctoral fellow. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Seoul National University. He published ten peer-reviewed papers during his Ph.D training including four 1st-authored, most…

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During the summer of 2016, Mr. Stedman, AP-biology teacher, and Phoenix, a freshman, from San Marcos High School participated in summer research in Kang lab. Phoenix has generated transgenic plants carrying with CRIPSR-Cas9 constructs with…

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Mr. Makr Stedman joined the lab to build a science fair program in the San Marcos school district. He is currently teaching AP-Biology at San Marcos High School. We are very excited to collaborate with him…

Continue Reading Mr. Stedman from San Marco High School joined to build a science fair program in the San Marcos school district.

April defended her thesis entitled ‘HISTONE VARIANT H2A.Z SUBSTITUTION MEDIATED BY THE SWR1-LIKE COMPLEX IS A NOVEL TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATORY MECHANISM CONTROLLING DEFENSE GENES AND IMMUNITY IN PLANTS’ on June 24, 2016. Congratulations!

Christian Ruiz from Northwest Vista College joined the lab on May 31 for his summer training. He is supported by NIH-funded Bridge-to-medicine program managed by Dr. Rachell Booth. He will be working on the CRISPR-CAS9 system.

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