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Welcome to the lab, Thakshila and Nick!

6/12/2020

Even though they are not allowed in the lab due to COVID-19 restrictions, I am very happy to welcome Thakshila Dharmasana and Nick Smith to our group. Thakshila is a MSc student and Nick has been awarded an NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Award. Over the next few months, they will work together with former student Natasha Kelkar on a data-mining and molecular evolution project.

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Katy is a 2020 ASPB Plantae Fellow!

6/8/2020

MSc student Katherine Dunning has been selected as one of this year's American Society for Plant Biology Plantae Fellows. Below are some of the excellent paper summaries she has published in the Plant Science Research Weekly blog. Her summaries are great - check them out!

Plant synthetic promoters to fine tune expression of engineered genes (bioRxiv)

Repurposed genes and the evolution of plant carnivory (Curr. Biol.)

Fungal antagonism of Arabidopsis oomycete infection requires a previously uncharacterized secreted hydrolase (bioRxiv)

Master regulator of gene expression in plant defense upregulates its own transcription (Plant Physiol.)

Interplay between phosphorylation and ubiquitination is key for regulating reactive oxygen species during plant immunity (Nature Comms)

Using CRISPR/Cas9 editing to inactivate an endogenous virus impacting bananas (Commun. Biol.)