September 2025 - Adam presents the lab's work on evolutionary patterns in the LRR-RLKs at the 1st Great Lakes Plant Science Conference at Michigan State University
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August 2025 - Just in time to round out an amazing month, Zach's final paper of his thesis is published in BMC Biology!
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August 2025 - The great run in the lab continues with Aparna's successful thesis defense. Another very proud moment for the lab, but also bittersweet as we say goodbye to the last original member of the lab!
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August 2025 - Aparna's next first author paper is published in MPMI. So happy top have three undergraduates from the lab as co-authors as well.
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July 2025 - Zach successfully defends his thesis! The very first PhD granted in the lab!!!!
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January 2025 - Adam is invited to present in the long non-coding RNA session at PAG32 in San Diego, California.
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December 2024 - Celebrating the end of another year by eating way too much BBQ!
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November 2024 - Robert walks and becomes the first official graduate from the lab!
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August 2024 - Zach published his second first-author paper on long-read assembly and annotation of Arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes.
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April 2024 - Zach is invited to present his work on Arabidopsis long-read genomes and receptor-kinase evolution at the CAGEF – GBB Symposium 2024.
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December 2023 - The lab published our first manuscript, led by Zach and Aparna. It details the evolution of the LRR-I subfamily of LRR-RLKs, showing an interesting evolutionary pattern in Brassicales. The paper was named the Paper of the Week in Plant Direct by ASPB.
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October 2023 - Sadly it is time to say farewell to Hemal as she leaves the lab to pursue other opportunities. She will be sorely missed!
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August 2023 - Aparna traveled to Savannah to attend Plant Biology 2023 and present her work "Sensing the cell wall: Role of SRF receptor family in monitoring cell wall damage".
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June 2023 - Adam is invited to present in the Systems Biology of Plant-Microbe Interactions session at ICAR 2023 in Chiba, Japan.
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December 2022 - Aparna wins the Dr. Clara Winifred Fritz Memorial Fellowship in Plant Pathology.
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July 2022 - Adam presented the work Hemal, Hasna, Hira, and Leanna have done on non-coding RNAs at the PlantBio2022 Conference in Portland. The talk was part of the CSPB Plenary session on Interacting and Tangled Plant Immune Pathways.