News
🌽 2025
Fausto’s abstract was selected for an oral talk at the Maize Genetics Meeting.
Hannah’s abstract was selected for an oral talk at the Maize Genetics Meeting.
Nirwan gave a talk at the INTRINSyC seminar.
Rubén was awarded with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers!!
We were awarded an ARPA-E grant for $5,000,000, where in collaboration with the University of Illinois, the University of Arizona, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Lauren joined the lab!
🌽 2024
Rubén visited several EMBRAPA units in Brazil
Zehta joined the lab!
Ruthie graduated
Hannah won the first place at the GGA Flash Talk Contest
Nirwan gave a talk at the Gordon Research Conference
Rubén went to Peru to meet with collaborators
The lab participated in a week-long tutoring program with the JUNTOS initiative, providing Latino students with hands-on DNA extraction experience and a tour of our fields.
Lina got her part 107 drone pilot license
Hannah began co-hosting the research interest group INTRINSyC
Carolina joined the lab as a Lab Tech/manager!
Rubén chaired the 66th Maize Genetics Meeting at the Raleigh Convention Center with more than 500 attendees. Everyone in the lab helped hosting and organizing the event.
Fausto’s abstract has been selected for a lightning talk at the maize meeting. It was one of the 6 abstracts (out of 120) that got the top score by the two reviewers that evaluated it!!
Ruben was awarded with the M. Rhoades Early-Career Maize Genetics Award.
🌽 2023
Nirwan visited the laboratory of Ed Buckler (Cornell University).
Briana Parker and undergraduate student from California State University at Sacramento joined the lab for an REU stay.
Aleya Mohammed a student from the Biochemistry major joined the lab.
Emily Phung joined the lab to work as lab technician.
Rubén visited UC Riverside to give a talk in the Institute for Integrative Genome Biology
Destiny, Ruthie, Hannah, Nirwan and Rubén attented the Maize Meeting in Saint Louis.
Fausto passed his prelims!
Fausto visited our collaborators Jeff Ross-Ibarra and Dan Runcie in UC Davis.
Hannah Pil graduated as a Genetics Major and is now working as a full time lab technician.
Pascual Blanco is now working as full time field tecnhnician.
🌽 2022
Nirwan Tandukar, a PhD student from the Functional Genomics Program joined the lab to work in the DOE CAREER project in January 2022
Ruthie Stokes, a PhD student from the Biochemistry program joined the lab in January 2022.
Fausto and Allison won the Genetics and Genomics Academy paper of the year!
Ruthie Stokes was accepted into the AgBioFews program.
Pascual Blanco joined the lab as a part time field technician.
🌽 2020-2021
Lot’s of things happened during this time in the world and our lab. To summarize:
Destiny Tyson joined our lab as a PhD student co-mentored with Jim Holland.
Andi Kur left the lab to start a career in scientific illustration and now as mid-school teacher. Lucky students!
We were funded with a DOE CAREER grant to study how to combine diverse geentic mapping datasets to improve our ability to discover candidate genes involved in adaptation to environmental stresses.
We are part of the team that got funded to start STEPS, the Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability NSF Center.
We got a Scientific Exchanges grant from the Foregign Agricultural Service to work with our colleagues in PerĂş.
🌽 2020
- August. Andi Kur joined the lab and will start her PhD in the Genetics program with a fellowship from the AgBioFews Program.
🌽 2019
October 10th Fausto gave a talk at NCSU’s Intrynsic group.
October 8th Rubén gave a talk at the University of Minnesota Plant and Microbial Biology Department.
September 16th Rubén gave a talk at the North Carolina Plant Molecular Biology retreat.
August 27th. Rubén gave a talk at NCSU’s Plant and Molecular Biology department seminar series
August 19th. Rubén visited colleagues in La Molina University and INIA in Perú.
August 12th. Rubén gave a talk at the Germplasm Enhacement of Maize meeting in Clayton, NC.
July 15th. Fausto RodrĂguez moved from MĂ©xico and started a PhD in the NCSU’s genetics graduate program.
July 1st. Fabian Santa Maria from the Mexico team spent two months in Raleigh.
June 17th. We visited our collaborators from the Steve Kresovich Lab in Florence, SC.
June 1st. Allison Barnes joined our lab as a postdoctoral researcher.
May 16th. We planted our first nursery in the Upper Mountain Research Station in Laurel Springs.
May 15th. Rubén Gave a talk at the Syngenta Plant Stress Symposium at Syngenta headquarters in the Research Triangle Park
April 29th. We planted our first nursery in the Central Crops Research Station at Clayton.
April 22nd. Rubén visited UGA in Athens, Georgia to give a talk invited by Alex Bucksch.
March 14th. We attended the Maize Meeting in St Louis, MO.
January 24th. We spent two weeks working on our winter nursery in Puerto Vallarta.
January 1st. Our lab has moved to the North Carolina State University, Deparment of Structural and Molecular Biochemistry.
🌽 2018
August 5-10th. Karla gave a talk at the 12th International Plant Molecular Biology Congress in Montepellier.
August 2nd. Rubén gave a talk at the Misión Biológica de Galicia in Pontevedra, Spain.
July 25th. Rubén gave a talk at the Aula Dei Experimental Station in Zaragoza, Spain.
July 14-19th. Rubén Presented a poster at the ASPB meeting in Montreal.
February 14-16th. Rubén visited NCSU to give a talk.
February 19-21st. Rubén visited MSU to give a talk.
January 13th. Start of the Winter Nursery crossing season.
January 12th. Rubén gave a talk at the MexPopGen meeting organized in Langebio.
🌽 2017
November 13-17th. We were part of the organizing committee of the SMB Plant Biochemistry Meeting in Puerto Vallarta.
October 23-25th. John Lovell visited us to give a talk and a workshop on QTL mapping.
July 25th. Rubén gave a talk at ISU´s Genetics and Genomics Graduate Group. Slides here.
July 17th. Rubén is off to Iowa State University to visit Matt Hufford’s lab.
June 28th. SofĂa Sánchez attended the SEB meeting in Sweeden and presented her work on the XIPOTL genes.
June 17th. Karla Juarez is off to the lab of Christoph Benning at MSU to work on the characterization of a phospholipase candidate gene.
June 16th. Karla Juarez Nuñez passed her master thesis today!! What a great way to celebrate Barbara McClintock´s birthday.
May 26th. Rubén gave a keynote seminar at the Danforth Plant Science Center Retreat. Slides here
May 4th. Rubén gave a talk at the Plant Biotechnology Ecology and Evolution student seminars series.
March 12-15. Rubén visited David Lowry´s lab at MSU to give a seminar and discuss future collaborations with
March 9-12. We had a great time at the maize meeting.
February 27. Elohim passed his qualifying exam! Congrats Elohim.
February 6 and 8. Rubén gave talks at the Carnegie Plant Biology Department in Stanford and at the Genome Center in UC Davis as part of a trip to meet collaborators in both places and attend the first ZeaBigData hackaton.
January 30. Rubén gave a talk at Plant Lipids Gordon Research Conference, in Gastonville, Texas.
January 24. Rubén gave a talk at the Future of Bean and Maize Research meeting in México organized by our colleagues Alejandra Covarrubias and Arnaud Ronceret in the IBT, Cuernavaca.
January. Several of us headed to Bucerias to work on our Winter Nursery.
🌽 2016
December 19. Our collaboration with Luis Herrera-Estrella´s lab on Malate-dependent Fe accumulation is a critical checkpoint in the root developmental response to low phosphate is now up on biorxiv.
December 12. Guillaume Lobet visited us briefly before heading to the Phenomics conference at Cimmyt. He gave a talk on how his brand new lab is using plant modelling to understand how plants integrate signals from both soil and the atmosphere to grow.
October 4. Our white paper on Morphological plant modeling: Unleashing geometric and topologic potential within the plant sciences has been uploaded to biorxiv. Great collaborative effort as result of a NimBios workshop last year.
September 5-7. Jonathan Lynch from Penn State visited us and gave a seminar at Langebio. Roots FTW!!
August 12. My colleagues Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, Matt Hufford, Sherryl Flint-GarcĂa, Graham Coop and Ruairidh Sawers got a PGRP-NSF grant to work on Maize Highland Adaptation and we will be closely collaborating with them.
August 5. UC-Mexus has funded our project in collaboration with the FiehnLab to work on the phospholipid metabolism reorganization in maize adapatation to highland conditions.
July 28 . Rubén has been awarded an eLife travel grant to attend the 7th International Crop Science Congress Beijing.
July 26. Wolfang Busch visited our lab and gave a talk on Approaching The Genetic And Molecular Bases Of Environmental Regulation Of Root Growth
July 6. Work led by colleagues José Sebastian and MC Yee at José Dinneny´s lab showing a nice use of GLO-Roots to study how grasses arrest crown root growth has been published.
Time lapse showing rapid induction of setaria crown roots (marked with blue arrow)
- June 7. Together with Guillaume Lobet, Malia Gehan and Srikant Srinivasan we are editing an Special Issue on Plant Phenomics for GigaScience. Check the blog article presenting the special issue here. We are very excited to collaborate with the folks at GigaScience on this.