Kranthi Varala presented and chaired a session at the annual Plant Biology meeting. The 5-day conference was held in Savannah, GA this year and attracts about 1-2000 attendees from across the world. Kranthi presented his work on Discovering novel TF regulators using gene regulatory networks built from extremely large expression datasets.
Kathleen Zapf (MS/Hoagland Lab) received the College of Agriculture Bayer AG and Bayer Crop Science Plant Breeding Travel Award for $500. This award is made possible by the efforts of Dr. Emilio Oyarzabal of the Bayer Research and Development Plant Breeding Team. She will be attending and presenting her research in St. Louis at the…Read more about Kathleen Zapf Receives Travel Grant[Read More]
ESE/HLA Graduate student Cristian Salinas and HLA Professor Lori Hoagland attended the 4th Plant Microbiome Symposium in Quito, Ecuador. Salinas received a scholarship to help defray the cost of his attendance at the event, and presented a poster titled ‘The role of seed transmitted endophytes in quinoa tolerance to cadmium stress’.
Fatemeh Sheibani, Cary Mitchell, and industry collaborators published an article entitled “Close-canopy lighting, an effective energy-saving strategy for overhead sole-source LED lighting in indoor farming” in the journal Frontiers in Plant Science.
Dr. Krishna Nemali was invited by Pure Green Farms-a large greenhouse-based hydroponics facility in South Bend, Indiana, to assess their production protocols and help them improve their practices and crop yields. Nemali and his student, Sangrak Son, are seen inspecting plants. Thanks to Gaby Lin, a Purdue graduate student from ABE currently interning at the…Read more about Nemali Visits Pure Green Farms, Indiana[Read More]
HLA Professor and Co-Director of the Arequipa Nexus Institute (ANI) Lori Hoagland and ESE/HLA PhD student Cristian Salinas traveled to Arequipa, Peru to kick-off phase III of ANI, which will fund four interconnected projects focused on organic crop production, alpaca fiber quality, renewable energy, and regenerative tourism. During their visit they met with their research partners at the University…Read more about Dr. Lori Hoagland and Cristian Salinas Traveled to Peru[Read More]
This summer Ian Kelly (Senior/Horticulture Production and Marketing) is a Young Plant Culture Research Intern at Ball Horticulture Company in West Chicago, IL. The most rewarding part of this experience for Ian: Meeting so many important figures in the horticulture industry at events such as Cultivate! Despite having an area of focus, Ball Horticulture encourages…Read more about Ian Kelly’s Summer Internship at Ball Horticulture[Read More]
On June 20, members from the HLA Department hosted 46 students and their chaperones from the Felege Hiywot Center. Dr. Kathryn Orvis and her graduate student Elyssa have been holding classes for BIPOC students at the center in Indianapolis for the past seven weeks. During their visit to campus, the students participated in various activities…Read more about HLA Hosted Students from Felege Hiywot Center[Read More]
Celina Gomez, along with Sofia Gomez, Maria Paz (University of Florida), Lian Duron, and Dalne Wood, attended Cultivate in Columbus, Ohio last week. During the “Essentials of Hydroponics Production: A tHRive Symposium” workshop, Dr. Gomez delivered a talk that focused on describing the basics of hydroponic plant production.