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!
Purdue Agriculture Communications released two stories on the work of Dr. Ying Li, Dr. Natalia Dudareva, and their labs. “Plant metabolism proves more complicated than previously understood” highlights the recent opinion piece published in Trends in Plant Science with co-author Erich Grotewold (Michigan State University): “Enough is enough: feedback control of specialized metabolism.” “Stop and…Read more about Li and Dudareva Lab featured in two recent Purdue Agriculture Press Releases[Read More]
Dr. Ryan Patrick and Dr. Russell Julian in Dr. Ying Li’s lab have published a research article “Organ-specific characteristics govern the relationship between histone code dynamics and transcriptional reprogramming during nitrogen response in tomato.” This research work applied a machine learning method to decipher the relationship between genome-wide histone modifications and global gene regulation during…Read more about Dr. Ying Li’s Lab Published Research Article[Read More]
Dr. Ryan Patrick (Postdoc/Li Lab) has received the Center for Plant Biology travel award ($1000) and he plans to attend the World Petunia Day in Italy in summer 2023, where he will present his NSF funded work on epigenetic regulations of specialized metabolism and collaborate on the petunia genome sequencing project.

