Congratulations to Mearaj Shaikh, postdoctoral researcher in the Widhalm Lab, on receiving a Best Poster Award at the 2026 Phytochemical Society of North America (PSNA) Annual Meeting. Mearaj was one of eight awardees selected from 95 poster presentations. Mearaj’s poster highlighted research from a joint USDA project between the Dudareva and Widhalm labs focused on…Read more about Mearaj Shaikh Earns Best Poster Honors at PSNA Annual Meeting[Read More]
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 (Li Lab), Dr. Xing-Qi Huang (Dudareva Lab), and Dr. Natalia Dudareva and Dr. Ying Li have published an research article on the role of dynamic histone acetylation in the diurnal oscillation of floral scents in New Phytologist (https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.19339). A press release will follow in coming weeks.
Josh Widhalm and Natalia Dudareva published an article in Molecular Plant with collaborators in the School of Chemical Engineering titled: “Two-way communication: Volatile emission and uptake occur through the same barriers.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674205222004063
Research.com, a prominent academic platform for scientists, has just published the 2022 Edition of their Ranking of Top 1000 Scientists in the area of Biology and Biochemistry. The ranking is constructed using the H-index data gathered by Microsoft Academic and includes only prominent scientists with an H-index of at least 40 for scientific papers published…Read more about HLA Scientists among Top 1000 Scientists in Biology and Biochemistry according to Research.com[Read More]