A guest from San Marcos high school
Ariel Koska, a senior student from San Marcos High School, spent a day in the lab for her job shadowing activity on Feb. 1, 2015. She followed various activities in the lab including sitting in…
Yogendra advanced to Ph.D. candidate
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 and Edgar completed their NIH-supported Bridges to Biomedicine project
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…
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Another presentation award for Yogendra.
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 won the second place for his oral presentation at the annual department colloquium.
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…
Two awards this year at the ExxonMobil Texas Science and Engineering Fair
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…
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Two travel awards – one way to have summer fun
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…
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Chamath (a.k.a. Sam) won a 4th place at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in 2013
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…
F1000 recognition!
Our Nature Communication paper has recently been recognized and recommended in F1000! Please check out the following site: http://f1000.com/prime/717977061
Congrats, Rachel!
Rachel Bullock has received the Commended Cell Biology Presentation Award from the Undergrad Symposium held at Rice University in October 2012.
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