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TPS Fellow Ashley Yates participates in ESA Student Symposium
Fourth year TPS fellow Ashley Yates participated in the Entomological Society of America’s Student Symposium during the 2017 annual meeting. The theme of the symposium focused on collaboration in…
TPS fellow Ashley Yates publishes in Current Opinion in Insect Science
Ashley Yates, a fourth year PhD fellow in the Translational Plant Sciences graduate program at The Ohio State University, was recently published in Current Opinions in Insect Science. The paper,…
Bodyguards against the cold: Ice-binding proteins in Plants
You’ve probably heard many a story of despaired farmers over lost citrus crops or home gardeners over blackened flowers and ornamental plants – all caused by frost and freezing temperatures.…
TPS Fellow Katie D’Amico receives funding from OSU Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship
The Translational Plant Sciences Graduate Program is pleased to announce that third-year fellow Katie D’Amico was recently awarded funding from The Ohio State University’s Alumni Grants for…
All I Want for Christmas is for my Experiment to Work
Ask any graduate student how they are doing and the answer will likely depend on how their current experiments are going. Did the growth chamber stop working overnight? Did their samples get…
What's Nano in Your Life?
When talking with the other TPS fellows after seminar recently, we began discussing applications for nanomaterials. Nanomaterials are composed of units that are 1-100nm in at least one dimension(1…
TPS Fellow Alex Turo Wins Tech Hub Student Project Grant
The Translational Plant Sciences Graduate Program is pleased to announce that third year fellow Alex Turo was recently awarded funding through the Tech Hub Student Grant program. This competitive…
What's this in my flowerbed?
I lived in the city for the first 13 years of my life and now in the country for about that long and I've never seen anything like what I found in…
Juicy, seedless watermelon is a summer staple and a great example of plant breeding innovation.
Above. Syngenta's watermelon breeder at their Woodland, CA location explains how seedless watermelon are produced. The small melons on the right…