October 24, 2024

Congratulations to Cynthia Webster. The last vote just arrived to admit her to the EEB PhD program (leveling up from MS).

October 24, 2024

Congratulations to Karl Fetter for receiving USDA funding to work on conservation in hemlock as a Postdoc Award.

October 15, 2024

Congratulations to Vera Velasco, Sumaira Zaman and Alyssa! “A long-read and short-read transcriptomics approach provides the first high-quality reference transcriptome and genome annotation for Pseudotsuga menziesii (Douglas-fir)” has been accepted for publication in G3! Nice work everyone!

October 15, 2024

Congratulations to all who attended and presented at NAFGS! And an extra thank you to Vidya Vuruputoor, Cynthia Webster, and Akriti Bhattarai who helped onsite! Also, a huge thank you to Shay Muhonen who helped with all the logistics for everyone!

October 15, 2024

Send your congratulations out to our new BS degree holder, Andrew Starovoitov!

October 15, 2024

Congratulations to Irene Cobo who is the recipient of a Travel Award to Botany 2022!

October 15, 2024

Send your congratulations to Maurice Amee, Vidya Vuruputoor, and Susan McEvoy who are 2022 recipients of EEB Graduate Research Awards! Great work everyone!

October 15, 2024

Congratulations to Doctor Laura Figueroa Corona!

October 15, 2024

Congratulations to Vidya Vuruputoor on her beautiful article on her research and award!

October 15, 2024

Congratulations to lead authors Cynthia Webster and Laura Figueroa Corona for Comparative analysis of differential gene expression indicates divergence in ontogenetic strategies of leaves in two conifer genera which is accepted in Ecology and Evolution!

October 15, 2024

Congratulations to our elevator pitch winners: Victoria Burton (first place), Cynthia Webster, Susan McEvoy, and Sophia Ben Jeddi!

October 4, 2024

Congratulations to Susan McEvoy! Maple genomes are fully accepted for publication!

October 4, 2024

Congratulations to Bikash Shrestha, Alison Scott, and Sumaira Zaman – the coast redwood genome manuscript is fully accepted!

October 4, 2024

Congratulations to Peter Richter who has been an undergraduate researcher with us, and most recently, a Tripal developer! He has been with us since 2017 and is the creator of the TPPS module and all things related to timber tracking for the Global Timber Tracking Network and the World Forest ID project. He recently received a MS in machine learning and has just accepted a position doing just that for Capitol One

October 4, 2024

Congratulations to Vidya Vuruputoor. She was awarded a grant ($6600) from the American Conifer Society to sequence and assemble the eastern hemlock genome!