Early morning planting of tomatoes:
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Qi, Shan and Yi Hsuan participated in the Horticulture and Crop Science retreat. Shan won first price for her oral presentation and Qi won second price for her poster:
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Janping and Liang got married and we held a goodbye dinner for Lev and Hyun:
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Shin Ruei has returned to Taiwan but not before the lab hosted a goodbye party:
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Visiting scientist Steven Fenster completed his project on Y2H interactors of OVATE and is heading to Fort Lewis College in Durango Colorado for his a faculty position. Congrats on the new job, Steve. Michelle and Hunter finished the Applied Mathematics Research Experience for undergraduate students project on the identification of putative promoter elements in differentially expressed tomato genes.
Michelle, Hunter and Steve at our annual tomato fruit shape meeting:
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OARDC Research Internship Program students Elizabeth Kleinhenz and Nathan Taitano present their research findings. Elizabeth worked on tomato SlKLUH gene and Nathan worked on the pepper domestication project.
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The lab says goodbye and best of luck to Meghan Fisher (off to U of Maryland for a greenhouse supervisor position) and Jason Van Houten (off to Wayne State for medical school). We’ll miss you!
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Postdoctoral researcher Zejun Huang started his independent position as an Associate Professor at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing, China. Congratulations! Lunch at the Apple Creek diner:
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PhD student Shan Wu passed her candidacy exam and is ready to get back to the lab. Congratulations!
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Master’s student Josh Clevenger successfully defended his thesis titled, “Metabolic and Genomic Analysis of Elongated Fruit in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum).” Josh will be joining the Dr. Peggy Ozias-Akins lab at the University of Georgia as a Ph.D. student in January.