Over the summer, the Widhalm laboratory members were busy presenting their research across the country. Graduate student Thiti Suttiyut presented his work on shikonin metabolism and helped organize the phytochemical section at Botany 2022 (Botanical Society of America) in Anchorage, Alaska from July 24th – 27th. Graduate student George Meyer presented his work on juglone[Read More…]
Kranthi Varala and his graduate student Xiaojin Wang published a paper in collaboration with three other Purdue faculty: Li L, Garsamo M, Yuan J, Wang X, Lam SH, Varala K, Boavida LC, Zhou Y and Liu X (2022) CAND1 is required for pollen viability in Arabidopsis thaliana—a test of the adaptive exchange hypothesis. Front. Plant Sci. 13:866086.[Read More…]
Many faculty, staff, and graduate students from HLA attended this year’s American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) in Chicago earlier this week. The department hosted a table at the Graduate Student Recruitment Event. About 20 current, former, and soon-to-be faculty, staff, and students joined Department Head Linda Prokopy for a fun and lively dinner at[Read More…]
Four members of HLA competed in the 2022 North Central Weed Science Society Weed Contest. Participants included Jeanine Arana, Emmanuel Cooper, and Josué Cerritos from the Meyers Lab and Vera Vukovic from the Patton Lab. The event was hosted by Corteva in Johnston, Iowa. Participants competed in written and hands-on sprayer calibration, weed identification, herbicide[Read More…]
Rebecca Traldi is a new postdoc in the department. She will be working closely with Dr. Linda Prokopy on the #Diverse Corn Belt project. She comes to us from the University of Maryland where she just completed her PhD, which focused on measuring the impact of agriculture and land-use change sustainability interventions. Rebecca has previously worked with the[Read More…]
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