Stress Genomics for Plant Health
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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Randall Ruyle, a senior student from San Marcos High School, spent a day in the lab for his job shadowing on Feb. 2, 2016. He followed various activities in the lab including sitting in Cell Physiology…
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While unofficial, a new funding is expected in early 2016, which will support the research program for 5 years. More details will be provided soon. Update: Dr. Kang received the NSF-CAREER award entitled “Characterization of epigenetic factors…
Rebecca and Nicole presented their research in Gulf coast undergraduate research symposium hosted by Rice University. Ji Chul and April have advised their research activities over this summer. Their presentation titles are as follows: Rebecca: Arabidopsis…
The Doctoral Research Fellowship from Texas State’s graduate college was awarded to Yogendra. This fellowship will further support his research on characterization of transposon activities under biotic stress.
Yogendra presented his work on genome accessiblity in response to biotic stress at the ASPB meeting on July 2015.
Jessica Torres (pictured in the right) from San Antonio College interned this summer under April’s guidance. She worked on a project characterizing several chromatin remodeling factors associated with plant immunity. Matt Randal and Edgar Rodriguez, the past interns, were…
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Lockhart, Texas, is known as the BBQ capital. We dined at Kreuz Market, one of the BBQ restaurants in Lockhart on July 2015.
Yogendra Bordiya: Colene Drace Cell Biology Award; Howard D. Schulze Biology Scholarship Ji Chul Nam: Certificate for Academic Excellence April Bonnard: Department of Biology Colloquium Award Mario Aguilar: Certificate for Academic Excellence Rebecca Kilbourn: Certificate for…
Continue Reading Everyone in the lab was awarded this year on the department award day!