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Several postdocs have joined the group in the last few months, though I’ve been remiss to make an announcement. Dr Sofia Robb, who completed her PhD at the University of Utah, joined the lab in August 2011 and has been working on the NSF funded Rice transposable element project in collaboration with Susan Wessler’s lab. She has [...] Congrats to graduate student Yizhou Wang who passed his qualifying exam today. We’re proud to have him through this hurdle and to continue working on his research into genome defense and silencing of transposable elements in Neurospora crassa. Jason and Yizhou at [...] This week the summer student programs ended and Carlos Rojas, Ramy Wissa and Lorena Rivera all gave presentations and posters on their work. We really enjoyed having them around for the summer and look forward to their possible continuation in the Fall. Carlos worked with postdoc John Abramyan on the CBM18 gene family in Bdto confirm gene [...] We wished postdoc John Abramyan a farewell and happy trails last week. He was the first postdoc to join the lab and completed a projects relating to Bd, chytrid cell wall genes, and some a gene regulation bioinformatics project. He also was main force in getting the experimental portion of our lab started when the group was [...] Welcome to two new programmers to the team working on FungiDB. Daniel Borcherding and Ragu Ramamurthy join us to work full time on the FungiDB project to support genomic data integration, website improvements, and supporting the system move from beta into production mode. We look forward to new improvements in the system and establishing a release cycle [...] Sofia Robb joined the lab this week to begin work as a postdoc scholar on genomics and bioinformatics aspects of studying transposable elements in Rice. She will also participate in developing teaching modules for the Dynamic Genomes course in collaboration with the Wessler lab. Sofia recently completed her PhD from the University of Utah working on [...] Edgar Medina has been visiting the lab for the last few months from the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia to work on Batrachochytrium genome evolution. This past Friday he completed his Master’s degree, defending his thesis via Skype. Was quite fun to see him adeptly switched between Spanish and English in the Q&A period while showing [...] A warm welcome to graduate student Steven Ahrendt to lab. Steven is working on questions relating structural evolution of light sensing proteins in fungi, metagenomics, and bioinformatics. He will be co-advised by Assistant Professor Chia-en [...] Some pictures from a recent lab lunch to help celebrate Divya passing her qualifying exam. #gallery-1 { Congrats to grad student Divya Sain, who passed her prelim qualifying exam in September and is now a PhD candidate as she begins her 3rd year at UCR in the GGB program. #gallery-2 { |
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