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Widhalm lab undergraduate research students Shoshana Keim and Lauryn Rhodes each received CATE Undergraduate Research Funding awards from the College of Agriculture. Shoshana and Lauryn are working on separate projects to investigate juglone metabolism alongside their graduate student mentor, George Meyer.






Dr. Celina Gomez, Sofia Gomez and Sungeun Lim attended the Floriculture Research Alliance Annual Meeting in Park City, Utah. Celina Gomez gave a presentation highlighting research findings from her group. Sofia Gomez and Sungeun Lim presented posters at the meeting.



Former HLA grad students Asmaa Morsi, Mokhles Elsysy, and Dr. Cary Mitchell, along with NASA and aerospace industry colleagues, are publishing an article in the Journal of Life Sciences in Space Research related to cut-and-come-again harvest of mizuna mustard growing in the Veggie plant-growth units onboard the International Space Station, to supplement astronaut diets and…Read more about New Article from Asmaa Morsi, Mokhles Elsysy, and Dr. Cary Mitchell[Read More]


Dr. Mearaj Shaikh (postdoc, Widhalm laboratory) received 2nd place in the poster competition at the 2023 Center for Plant Biology Symposium Shannon Stirling (PhD student, Dudareva laboratory) received 2nd place in the poster competition at the 2023 Center for Plant Biology Symposium


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