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Congratulations to Dr. Stephanie Karhoff!
The Translational Plant Sciences Graduate Program is excited to announce that TPS Fellow Stephanie Karhoff successfully defended her dissertation on Tuesday, March 26th. Dr. Stephanie Karhoff is the…
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TPS Fellow Katie D'Amico Willman Wins Oral Presentation
Big congratulations to TPS Fellow Katie D'Amico Willman recently received first place for her oral presentation at the Midwest Section of American Society for Plant Biologist Meeting!
TPS Fellow Stephanie Karhoff publishes in Crop Science
In this study, "Characterization of a QTL against Phytophthora sojae in soybean", we characterized a potential source of resistance to Phytophthora sojae in order to facilitate its use in…
TPS Fellow Irene Gentzel publishes in Plant Physiology
TPS Fellow Irene Gentzel recently published her first first-author paper in Plant Physiology. To be included in the upcoming Biotic Stress Focus Issue, her paper titled “A simple method for…
I see your Nobel prize, and I raise you a Mars rover
The last time I wrote an article for this blog, I mentioned the scientist Rosalind Franklin in passing. In that blog post, I referred to her as the underappreciated co-discoverer of the structure of…
An avocado a day keeps the doctor away?
New Years is a time for resolutions, and February is a time for breakin’ ‘em. But during the blissful month of January, many people make health-related resolutions to lose weight, workout or eat more…
Why do scientists go to conferences? A highlight of the 2018 National Entomological Society of America meeting in Vancouver, Canada.
In November of 2018, I was fortunate to attend the Entomological Society of America (ESA) conference in beautiful Vancouver, Canada. Several of the other entomology students, faculty and staff also…
TPS Fellow Katie D'Amico Willman publishes in Forest Ecology and Management
Congratulations to Katie D'Amico Willman and her collaborators in the Bonello lab on the publication of their recent article, Disease incidence and spatial distribution of host resistance in a…