2025 Nov -

We had fun bowling with our friends from Marks & Punyasena & McGrath labs! We also discovered that our undergrad Emma is actually a bowling genus, who literally carried the team - a third of our total score was done by Emma lol! Also shout out to Yudi, who did bowling for the first time in her life, yet managed to throw out a high speed curve ball (thanks to a youtube tutorial on site??).

2025 Sept -

First experiment - check!

First sowing - check!

First lab meeting - check!

First lab photo - check!

Our starter pack is also assembled:

left to right- Emma, Sam, Minya, Yudi, Angelique

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.