Jan/Feb 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.

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Nov/Dec 2021

• Jiho Lee is awarded the Morley award and Dextra award for UG research on carotenoids. Go Jiho!  🎉🎈

• Manuscript on resin glycoside diversity in morning glories accepted in Horticulture Research special issue on Specialized Metabolism in Horticultural Crops

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Sep/Oct 2021

• Jiho Lee, Arden Lee, Nandita Nagarajan join the lab as undergrad researchers. Welcome!

• Bryce Askey joins for his second rotation.

• Manuscript on importance of acylsugars in N. benthamiana aphid and drought response published, in collaboration with the Jander lab.

 

August 2021

• Alexandre Miaule joins the lab for his rotation

• Manuscript on resin glycoside identification now on bioRxiv

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July 2021

• Two manuscripts accepted - sweet potato anthocyanins/flavonoids identification (Scientific Reports) and a review on laticifers and latex (Current Opinion in Plant Biology) 

• Liz wins the best talk award at the Phytochemistry session at Botany 2021 

 

June 2021

• Liz awarded the prestigious USDA-NIFA predoctoral fellowship! 🎉🎈

• Irfan is selected into the ASPB Early Career committee.

• Our review on Evolution-aided engineering of plant metabolism published in aBiotech.

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April 2021

• Chinmaey gets an internship at a Texas biomedical genomics company

• Sejin is a finalist at the Cornell Undergraduate Research Board symposium for her honors thesis work. 

 

March 2021

• Our manuscript on Solanum habrochaites population genomics and phenotypic evolution published in Molecular Biology and Evolution 🎉🎈

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​December 2020

• Liz selected for a data scientist summer internship at Corteva. Way to go Liz! 🎉🎈

 

November 2020

• Lars' BAHD paper submitted to bioRxiv and for review.

• Mohammad Irfan joins the lab as a postdoc! Irfan is an expert on tomato biochemistry. Welcome Irfan! 🎉🎈

• Arielle Johnson co-joins the Moghe/Frank lab groups working on the Euphorbia project. Welcome Arielle! 🎉🎈

 

August 2020

• Ali's first paper on sweet potato anthocyanins on bioRxiv and under review.

• We bid goodbye to Alexandra Bennett, our lab tech for 3 years, who is moving to Vienna for graduate studies in analytical chemistry. She will be sorely missed!

• Ben Fehr -- computational biology graduate student -- joins the lab for his rotation.

• Nandita Nagarajan -- a high schooler from NJ -- completes a very successful virtual summer internship in the lab working on cis-regulatory element discovery.

 

July 2020

• Lars and Gaurav present at the ASPB Global Summit. Liz presents a poster at ISCB.

 

May 2020

• Gaurav presents at UCSD (virtually). Thanks to Eric Schmelz for the invitation!

 

April 2020

• Liz is now a co-PI on a successful Schmittau-Novak small grant from SIPS, with Olenka (PI) from Olena Vatamaniuk lab.

 

March 2020

• Solanum quitoense -- a system Gaurav developed in his postdoc -- finally sees light of the day in Plant Physiology, thanks to Bryan Leong's persistent efforts in the Last lab!

• Paper on rice interactome with Susan McCouch and Haiyuan Yu accepted in PNAS!

• Liz's review titled Machine learning: A powerful tool for gene function prediction in plants -- a detailed primer of ML for functional genomics -- just got accepted in Applications in Plant Sciences! 🎉🎈

 

January 2020

• Excited for meeting the Plant Natural Products group graduate students and faculty at Rutgers, New Brunswick.

• Gaurav presents preliminary data on sweet potato metabolite analysis at the NY State Producer's Expo, Syracuse.

 

October 2019

• Thanks to University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Plant Science Innovation for an excellent one-day symposium on Plant Metabolism and Engineering!

• Liz completes her A-exam! She's officially a PhD candidate! 🎉🎈

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August 2019

• Gaurav presents in the Inaugural Presidential session at ASPB 2019, San Jose: "All in the family: Emergence of new functions in plant enzyme families"

• Jason wins the second prize in the Cornell-BTI REU poster presentation. Congratulations! 🎉🎈

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June 2019

• Jason Chobirko from the University of Pittsburgh joins our lab as part of the Cornell-BTI REU program.

• Cornell Biotechnology Resource Center Seed Grant (co-PI: Margaret Frank) on studying Euphorbiaceae latex and laticifers accepted! 🎉🎈

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May 2019

• Our USDA-Hatch proposal for quantifying anthocyanins and carotenoids from NY-grown sweet potatoes accepted! 🎉🎈

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March 2019

• Michael Miller -- a PLBIO grad student -- joins the lab for his third rotation

 

January 2019

• Gordon Younkin and Nicole Szeluga -- PLBIO grad students -- join lab for their second rotations

• New AJB paper on evolutionary biochemistry co-authored with fellow Botany meeting presenters, shepherded by Stacey Smith and Chris Pires now online!

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December 2018

• Our proposal to JGI-CSP for Brachypodium transcriptomics and metabolomics was just accepted! 🎉🎈Major work to start in February!

 

October 2018

• Kai Fan joins our lab as a Visiting Fellow on a CSC fellowship from China for 1 year

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September 2018

• Se-Jin Park joins our lab as an undergrad

• Anna-Lena Sprick joins the lab as a visiting intern from Christian Albrecht University of Kiel for 2 months

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July 2018

• Lars was just awarded the German DFG fellowship for 2 years! 🎉🎈

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June 2018

• Our AJB paper is now online 🎉🎈

• Liz Mahood embarks on her PhD journey in the lab! 🎉🎈

• Welcome - Elena Lazarus! Elena comes to our lab for 10 weeks from the University of Portland, as part of the Boyce Thompson Institute REU program.

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April 2018

• We are now also a part of the Cornell Computational Biology graduate field.

 

March 2018

• Gaurav is the recipient of the 2018 ASPB Early Career award!🎉🎈

• Our opinion piece titled "The study of plant specialized metabolism in the genomics era: Challenges and prospects" just got accepted in the American Journal of Botany.

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January 2018

• Check out our commentary on Hiroshi Maeda's wonderful paper on betalain evolution in New Phytologist.

• Arielle Johnson joins our lab as a rotating graduate student.

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