Congratulations to several of our HLA researchers who received AgSEED grants for their projects. Petrus Langenhoven (PI) and collaborators Kranthi Varala, Amanda Deering, Allison Kingery, and Brian Schilling were awarded an AgSEED grant titled Assessing Scotch Bonnet Pepper Adaptability in the Midwest: A Preliminary Study of Variety Performance and Molecular Characterization. Scotch Bonnet peppers present…Read more about HLA Researchers Awarded AgSEED Grants[Read More]
Dr. Ying Li, Dr. Kranthi Varala, and Dr. Josh Widhalm were awarded seed grants by the Purdue Center for Plant Biology. Each project received $40,000 to support the generation of data for submitting federal grant proposals. Their projects awarded funding are: Gyeong Mee Yoon (PI) and Ying Li (co-PI): Phase separation in ethylene signaling. Kranthi…Read more about Drs. Li, Varala and Widhalm Receive Seed Grants from CPB[Read More]
Dr. Renu Pandey, from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), visited Purdue’s Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture this month as part of the Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship (OVDF) Program organized by Purdue and SERB of India and hosted by Dr. Ying Li, Dr. Kashchandra Raghothama, and Dr. Kranthi Varala. During this visit, Dr. Pandey…Read more about Dr. Renu Pandey Visited HLA Department[Read More]
Dr. Ying Li and Dr. Jing Gao’s (associate professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering) project “Decoding the Intergenic Regulatory Information in Crop Genomes to Enhance Genetic Improvement of Agricultural Traits” was one of seven to be awarded the Institute for Physical Artificial Intelligence (IPAI) Postdoctoral…Read more about Dr. Ying Li’s Project Awarded IPAI Postdoctoral Research Award[Read More]
Purdue team develops fast-track process for genetic improvement of plant traits Web-based tool for plant biologists to discover regulators for their trait-of-interest Kranthi Varala, and 9 co-authors from HLA, published the details of the new web-based regulatory gene discovery tool in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Varala has a patent pending on…Read more about Varala Lab Publishes Research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)[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. Ying Li, Dr. Kranthi Varala, and Dr. Jing Gao (from Electric and Computational Engineering) have won the 2023 Agriculture – Engineering Collaborative Projects Competition for their proposal “EpiAwareNet: Integrating Single-Cell Multi-Omics and Deep Learning for Inference of Nitrogen-Responsive Gene Regulatory Networks in Crop Roots”.
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.
Several HLA faculty and staff were recognized at the University’s Seed for Success event earlier this week. The Seed for Success event recognizes faculty and staff who attract large (over $1 million) sponsored research grants to Purdue. This year’s event recognized awards from 2021-2023. Ashley Adair, Steve Hallett, Ying Li, Liz Maynard, Linda Prokopy, Aaron…Read more about HLA Members Recognized with Seed for Success Acorn Awards[Read More]