It was the annual Horticulture and Crop Science Graduate Student Retreat. 10 students won awards for either poster presentations or oral presentations. Included in the winning presentations was work by Ph.D. student Shan Wu and Master’s student Josh Clevenger both from the van der Knaap lab. Follow the link below for a complete list of the winning presentions from the retreat.
The van der Knaap lab traveled to Ithaca, NY for our Third Annual Tomato Fruit Shape Meeting with project collaborators at Cornell University. While there we took a break to visit Taughannock Park and one of the highest waterfalls on the east side of the Rockies.
Ph.D. student Na Zhang successfully defended her thesis titled, “Finemapping and characterization of fw3.2, one of the major QTL controlling fruit size in tomato.” Na has accepted a post-doctoral position in Dr. Roger Wise’s lab at Iowa State University.
Ph.D. student Na Zhang was awarded the Scherago International Student Travel Grant to attend the 2012 PAG meeting. Poster title, “Elucidation of the Molecular and Identity and Characterization of the Tomato Fruit Weight Gene FW3.2”
Ph.D. student Shan Wu and post-doctoral researcher Manohar Chakrabarti attended the 8th Annual Solanaceae Conference (SOL2011) in Japan. Shan won 1st place in the poster competition with her poster titles, “A study of SUN and OVATE in controlling apical-basal patterning of tomato fruit.”
Research Associate Jammi McClead was inducted into the Athletes Hall of Fame at Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN where she was a 4-yr starter for the Lady Railsplitters soccer team.
Ph.D. student Antonio Cabrera successfully defended his thesis titled, “Genetic analysis and fruit weight QTL mapping in sweet cherry (Prunus avium).” Antonio has accepted a post-doctoral researcher position with Dr. Clay Sneller at The Ohio State University / OARDC.
