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Dr. Natalie Nannas, a postdoctoral fellow in Kelly Dawe's lab, has recently accepted a faculty position at Hamilton College beginning fall of 2017. She will be continuing her research on chromosome segregation and teaching genetics, molecular biology and bioethics at Hamilton.

Last week, Kevin Tarner (one of our greenhouse personnel) and Chera Watts (our undergrad advisor) took a group of incoming transfer and other interested students on a tour of our greenhouses. About 20 students showed up for the tour and they were each given goodie bags and free plants.

Sara Dorhmi graduated this semester with a BS in Plant Biology. As an undergrad, Sara co-authored a video article in Fungal Genetics and Biology, received a CURO Research Assistantship, and received a PBIO Undergraduate Research Award, which she used to research blast disease in the Khang lab.…

Somer Rowe graduated this semester with a BS in Plant Biology and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Academic Honor Society. As an undergrad, she received two Plant Biology Undergraduate Research Awards to do independent research in the Malmberg and Peterson labs.

Crowdsourcing science?  Check out this cool experiment.com project on spore dormancy from Earl Kang, PBIO and Fungal Biology Group grad student in Momany lab.

https://experiment.com/projects/regulation-of-spore-dormancy-in-pathogenic-fungi

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