Spring 2025

• Bhaswati wins the SIPS Schmittau-Novak grant for an interdepartmental project on sweet potatoes. Congrats! 🎉🎈

• Gaurav is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Yay for me!

• Tere Parra joins the lab - our 7th grad student. Welcome to the lab Tere! 🎉🎈

• Irfan is promoted to a Research Associate. Congrats Irfan! 🎉🎈

• Nate's FuncFetch paper is published in Bioinformatics 🎉🎈

• Our ex-postdoc Lars' book chapter on resin glycoside extraction is published in Methods in Molecular Biology as a Cover Article 🎉🎈

• Xinyu's review on Identification-free methods of analysis of metabolomic data is published in Applications in Plant Sciences 🎉🎈

• Work on C-SPIRIT, led by Sue Rhee's group at MSU, begins

• Bhaswati gets a travel award to attend the NAPB meeting in Hawaii. Congrats! 🎉🎈

• Gaurav presents at two sessions in PAG

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Fall 2024

• Gaurav participates on a DoE panel in Washington DC on using AI for advancing bioenergy crop research

• Tere Parra joins the lab for rotations

• Szu-Ping Chen joins the lab as a Plant Breeding and Genetics PhD student! Welcome Szu-Ping!

• Xinyu's first paper (review) on Identification-free analysis of metabolomic data submitted! 

• Nate is no longer a lab-tech, but a PLBIO PhD student now! Nate's FuncFetch paper out on BioRxiv!

• Vishwa ends his productive stint in our lab and joins Clare Casteel's lab as a PhD student!

• Undergrads Leena, Crystal and Archawin join the lab

• Gaurav gives a seminar in Plant Biology@Cornell 

• New international grant with NSF!

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Summer 2024

• Conferences - ASPB, Botany, Metabolomics workshop!!!

• Venus Kajangu completes a successful REU program in our lab. 

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Spring 2024

• Gaurav presents at the Danforth Center.

• AutoML based model to predict grapevine freezing tolerance from weather data published in Hort. Res. (Hongrui Wang, Londo Lab)

• Bhaswati gets an Agricultural Genome 2 Phenome travel grant to attend NAPB meeting 🎉🎈

• Undergraduates Pradhi, Chesney and Garrett join the lab.

• Bhaswati Sarmah heads over to UC-Davis for the LC-MS workshop.

• Mac Flanagan submits his Honors thesis on biochemistry of Physalis grisea, and heads over to Max Planck for PhD!! 🎉🎈

 

Fall 2023​

• Undergraduates Aidan, Ariana and Ling join the lab

• Bhaswati Sarmah joins the lab for her PhD in Plant Breeding, working on sweet potato projects

• Nate Smith joins the lab as a lab tech, working on enzyme family functional prediction and evolution

• We received the Grand Challenge graduate recruitment fellowship award from SIPS 🎉🎈. More information here.

• We received a CALS Moonshot Grant to engineer tomato fruit biochemistry using novel circuits. 🎉🎈

• Gaurav presents at the Cornell Co-evolution symposium held in honor of May Berenbaum.

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Summer 2023​

• Multiple conference presentations!

• Kanza - ASPB, Irfan - HortSci, Gaurav - multiple

• Kanza graduates!! 🎉🎈

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Spring 2023​

• TPJ article has a research highlight and is a Cover Article.

• Mac Flanagan wins the ASPB SURF summer fellowship 🎉🎈

• Lars Kruse (ex-postdoc) is awarded the 2023 Plant Journal Early Career Award by the Phytochemical Society of North America 🎉🎈

• Gaurav is awarded the 2023 Arthur Neish Young Investigator Award by PSNA.

• Four papers published in Current Opinions in Plant Biology (Gaurav, Bhaswati, Irfan), Genome Biology and Evolution (Arielle)​, The Plant Journal (Liz), Frontiers in Plant Sciences (Gaurav, Lars) 🎉🎈

• Gaurav speaks at the grad-student organized University of Missouri Plant Science symposium sponsored by Corteva Agrosciences. Thank you for the invitation!

• Our project on identifying the biosynthetic pathway of resin glycosides in sweet potato was funded by the USDA!  🎉🎈

• NSF grant on protein function discovery is awarded! 🎉🎈

 

Fall 2022

• After 5 years in the lab, we are sad but also overjoyed to see Liz Mahood leave with her PhD degree. Liz will join Corteva Biosciences in the Crop Protection group! 🎉🎈

• Kanza Arshad joins the lab as an MPS student on a Fulbright scholarship. Welcome Kanza!

• Jacob Novozhenets from Biomedical Engineering joins the lab. Welcome Jacob!

• Mac Flanagan wins the Cornell CALS undergraduate research grant to work on Physalis metabolites! 🎉🎈

• Gaurav presents the lab's research at Purdue University, Zhejiang University and University of Toronto - Scarborough. Thank you for the invitations!

• Annual Reviews in Plant Biology - review on BAHDs published! (Gaurav, Lars)

• Multiple papers submitted!

• Botanical Society of America Phytochemical Section symposium proposal on plant defenses accepted! 🎉🎈

• Cornell Intercampus Symposium proposal on "Drug Discovery from Nature's Metabolites" accepted! 🎉🎈(clickable link)

• Manuscript with 55 or so co-authors on protein function prediction published in the journal Databases.

 

Summer 2022

• USDA - Hatch award on effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis on cold tolerance funded! 🎉🎈

• Gaurav presents at PSNA at Virginia Tech

• Bhaswati leaves the lab after a fantastic four months! We will miss you!

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Spring 2022

• Gaurav is selected as a TW Turner Fellowship Mentor and a Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability Faculty Fellow.

• Congratulations Liz for getting awarded the ASPB Travel Award!! 🎉🎈

• Congratulations Irfan for getting awarded the Atkinson Center small grant! 🎉🎈

• Our HortRes manuscript is now online.

• Bhaswati Sarmah joins the lab as an ICAR-World Bank visiting fellow

• Gaurav co-chairs a session in a workshop on Protein Function Prediction organized at University of Florida - Gainesville.​

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