Stress Genomics for Plant Health
Yogendra has successfully defended his dissertation proposal/qualifying exam on Jan 16, 2015. He is now officially Ph.D. candidate. The dissertation title is Characterization of chromatin dynamics under biotic stress in Arabidopsis. His committee consists of Dr. Dan…
Matt Randal and Edgar Rodriguez, sophomore students from San Antonio and Northwest Vista College respectively, successfully completed their NIH-supported Bridges to Biomedicine project. They presented their research, in which yeast-2-hybrids were utilized to look at the molecular interaction of…
Continue Reading Matt and Edgar completed their NIH-supported Bridges to Biomedicine project
Yogendra won the 2nd place award for his poster presentation at the Annual Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences Symposium at Texas A&M in May 2014. His poster was entitled as ‘The MORC1/CRT1 family play a role…
Yogendra Bordiya, a second-year Ph.D. student, won second place for his oral presentation at the annual department colluquium. He presented his research, titled ‘The MORC1/CRT1 family play a role in modulating transposable elements via altering…
Angela was awarded with irst place (Plant Science) at the ExxonMobil Texas Science and Engineering Fair. Following Sam’s first award last year, this is a repeat win in the plant science section at the state…
Continue Reading Two awards this year at the ExxonMobil Texas Science and Engineering Fair
Dr. Kang has received two travel awards from ASPB (American Society of Plant Biologists) and ICAR (International Conference on Arabidopsis Research), traveling to Providence and Australia, respectively. He presented our recent and exciting developments on…
Continue Reading Two travel awards – one way to have summer fun
CHAMATH DHARMASIRI, a volunteer student from Wimberley high school last summer, placed 4th at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in April 2013. His presentation title is Analysis of CRT1 Protein Family Dimerization in Plant…
Our Nature Communication paper has recently been recognized and recommended in F1000! Please check out the following site: http://f1000.com/prime/717977061
Rachel Bullock has received the Commended Cell Biology Presentation Award from the Undergrad Symposium held at Rice University in October 2012.
A Nature Communications paper was published from the Kang lab in December 2012. This is the third paper published by Dr. Kang characterizing CRT1, a crucial immune component in plants. Note that the previous papers…
Continue Reading New paper! Another high impact paper on CRT1.