2025 July - Minya came back from one of her fav conferences, Botany2025, which was in Palm Spring CA this year. She co-hosted a workshop “Design Principles for Figure Making” with Dr. Kasey Pham, co-hosted a Listening Session as a member of the Early Career Professional Development Committee, judged talks as a member of the Katherine Esau Award Committee (she was a Esau Award recipient in 2018 too!), served as a panelist on the Belonging in Botany session, learned a lot of cool science, caught up with long time friends and colleagues and made new ones, enjoyed the pool and California sunshine, aaaaaaaaaand also caught Covid. (I guess this was a relatively eventful conference lol)

2025 July - Congratulations to Sam on finishing the 8-week fully funded Summer Predoctoral Program AND winning 3rd place Graduate Research Talk at the Illinois Summer Research Symposium!

2025 June - Full lab renovation almost done!!!! Let the magic BEGIN.