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July 2018
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
Dr. Gyeong Mee Yoon received notification that she was awarded a
grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) entitled
Collaborative Research: Spatiotemporal Regulations of the Ethylene
Signaling Network and Rapid Adaptive Responses in Plants. This is a
collaboration between her lab and the lab of Brad Binder at the
University of Tennessee to understand the spatiotemporal changes in
signaling components that occurs in plants in response to ethylene.
CONGRATULATIONS Gyeong Mee!
MASI Program gives High Schools a taste of college
The MASI Program was
created by Purdue
Agriculture’s Office of
Academic Programs as
part of the Institute for
Plant Sciences initiative.
Students work alongside faculty exploring the wide-ranging field of plant sciences
and STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math). One of the MASI
students tweeted that her school doesn’t have any AG
courses, so MASI allowed me to channel my plant
nerdiness.
Dr. Sharon Kessler tweeted back that she was happy to
encourage “plant nerdiness” about the wonders of
pollination with eager MASI Students!
Thank you to Dr. Chunhua Zhang, Dr. Yun Zhou,
Dr. Sharon Kessler and John Cavaletto for being involved in this program!
NEW FACES IN THE DEPARTMENT
Blaise Jumbam joined our department during the summer semester of
2018 as a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Cathie Aime. He is
from the English-speaking part of Cameroon, one of the member
countries of the Central African Sub-region. He is married to Janet
and they have a one year old daughter they named Serina Aime,
after Dr. Aime. Blaise has a Master of Science degree in Botany from
the University of Buea, Cameroon and has been involved in
mycological field work for two years with his mentor Dr. Aime, as well
as other renowned mycologists from the U.S. in the Dja Biosphere
Reserve. His research at Purdue will focus on finding ways to
biologically control the potato cyst nematode (PCN) that is seriously
devastating potato yields in the West and North West US. The PCN in
the US is alleged to have originated from the Ades in South America.
Tomas Delucchi recently began as an M.S. student with Dr. Bryan
Young in May 2018. An agronomy graduate from the Universidad de
Buenos Aires (Argentina), he is getting a head start with the Purdue
Weed Science program to see what research projects interest him.
Before his arrival to the US, Tomas worked for over 7 years in the
agrochemical industry for different companies.
Josh Kraft has joined the department working in the Oakley lab this
summer as a technician. When the semester begins, Josh will begin in
fall 2018 as a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Chris Oakley. His
research interests include plant adaptations to both biotic and abiotic
stress, the underlying genetic control of plant stress responses, the
genetic basis of local adaptation, and population genetics.
Lucia Molina is a visiting scholar who joined the department from
Patagonia Argentina as part of a Cooperation Project between the
Aime Lab and Forestry Protection Lab of Patagonian Andes Forest
Research and Extension Center (CIEFAP). During her six month stay,
she will be conducting research focused in wood and leaves
inhabiting fungi from two emblematic native species of Patagonian
Andes Forest in order to elucidate the causes of a disturbing problem
of grouped disease.
GRADUATE STUDENT RECOGNITION
Weiran Li won first place in the student poster
contest at the Corn Utilization and Technology
Conference. Weiran is a Ph.D. student in Dr.
Charles Wolushuk’s Lab.
STAFF RECOGNITION
Congratulations to Dr. Rachel Koch! Her
article was featured in Molecular Ecology and got the cover
page! Rachel received her PhD in May 2017 and is currently
a post-doc researcher in Cathie Aime’s lab.
See link to her article:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.14710
UNDERGRADUATE SPOTLIGHT
Ben Turner, a 10-year 4-H member this year, will be
entering Purdue this fall as a Plant Science major. While he
has always been interested in life sciences. The projects he
took in 4-H have helped him find the areas that he is most
passionate about studying. During his time in 4-H he has
taken most the science related projects such as Soil &
Water Conservation, Wildflowers, Entomology, Plant
WELCOME BEN! Science, and Weeds.
PUBLICATIONS
Huang L., Zhang C. Springer Link. Pp 167-175. (2018) Use Endosidin2 to Study Plant
Exocytosis and Vacuolar Trafficking. In: Pereira C. (eds) Plant Vacuolar Trafficking. Methods
in Molecular Biology, vol 1789. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-
4939-7856-4_13
Manli Sun, Yimei Zhang, Qinhu Wang, Chunlan Wu, Cong Jiang, Jin-rong Xu. Wiley Online
Library. Molecular Microbiology. The tri-snRNP specific protein FgSnu66 is functionally
related to FgPrp4 in Fusarium graminearum. 20 June 2018 https://
doi.org/10.1111.mmi.14005
Sara Balzan, Nicola Carrarro, Belen Salleres, Cristian Dal Cortivo, Mitchell R. Tuinstra, Guri
Johal, Serena Varotta. Springer Link. Plant Growth Regulation pp 1-12. Genetic and
phenotypic characterization of a novel brachytic2 allele of maize. 19 June 2018 https://
doi.org/10.1007/s10725-018-0412_6
Xifeng Li, Hexigeduleng Bao, Zhe Wang, Mengxue Wang, Baofang Fan, Cheng Zhu and
Zhixang Chen. Frontiers in Plant Science. Biogenesis and Function of Multivesicular Bodies
in Plant Immunity. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00979.
Leonor C. Boavida. Plant Physiology. Live-Cell Imaging of Mobile RNAs in Plants. June 2018.
doi https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.18.00441.
Gordon G. McNickle and Wesley D. Evans. Open Access—Research Article. Toleration
games; Compensatory growth by plants in response to enemy attack is an evolutionarily
stable strategy. 03 July 2018. https://academic.oup.com/aobpla/advance-article-
abstract/doi/10.1093/aobpla/ply035/5032505.
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