The Horticulture Crops Weed Science Lab welcomes a new member, Helen Nocito. Helen is from Winston-Salem, North Carolina and graduated from North Carolina State University with a bachelor’s degree in Plant Biology. She is interested in weed management and ecology, with a focus on horticultural crops. She joined the Meyers lab on June 3rd. Her…Read more about Welcome Helen Nocito![Read More]
Drs. Mearaj Shaikh and Josh Widhalm published a paper with Dr. Mike Mickelbart and HLA alum Dr. Chan Yul Yoo in Plant Direct titled “Transcriptional repression of GTL1 under water-deficit stress promotes anthocyanin biosynthesis to enhance drought tolerance.” Dr. Yoo received his PhD in 2011 working with Dr. Mike Hasegawa. He is currently an assistant professor of biology…Read more about New Publication from Drs. Shaikh, Widhalm, Mickelbart and Colleagues[Read More]
Dr. Ying Li and Dr. Jing Gao’s (associate professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering) project “Decoding the Intergenic Regulatory Information in Crop Genomes to Enhance Genetic Improvement of Agricultural Traits” was one of seven to be awarded the Institute for Physical Artificial Intelligence (IPAI) Postdoctoral…Read more about Dr. Ying Li’s Project Awarded IPAI Postdoctoral Research Award[Read More]
Celina Gómez and Cary Mitchell were in Seoul Korea May 19-22 for the LightSym2024 international conference where they presented their light-related research with plants. Celina also moderated a session at LightSym.
Purdue Agriculture Communication featured a story on the Varala Lab’s recent publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Purdue-USDA team develops fast-track process for genetic improvement of plant traits. The story has also been featured in the US Department of Energy’s University and Stakeholder News.
Celina Gómez and Cary Mitchell along with OptimIA project colleagues from around the USA are in the Tokyo suburb of Kashiwa May 15-19 to visit the Japan Plant Factory Association, give papers about their indoor agriculture research, and to visit several progressive plant factories in that area.
The Hoagland Lab joined the Midwest Microbiome Symposium hosted this year by Purdue from 13th through 15th May at Beck Center. Henrique Petry and Cristian Salinas, both PhD students, presented their posters on nanoplastics effect on tomato and lettuce microbiome and coffee root endophytes response to legume intercropping.
Kayla Grennes, an undergraduate research assistant in the Li Lab, has won the 3rd place in poster presentation in College of Ag in the 2024 Undergraduate Research Spring Conference. Congratulations to Kayla and her mentor Dr. Ryan Patrick in the Li lab!