News

April 2, 2022
Vivian was honored to be invited as a plenary speaker, and presented the lab’s work on Citrus at the recent NESDB 2022 meeting in Woods Hole, MA. 
December 17, 2021
Congratulations to Anaa, who passed her prospectus exam today!  Now that she is a full-fledged Ph.D. candidate, Anaa will be focusing on the role of the epidermis in tissue-...
July 6, 2021
Congratulations to Ruirui on her first publication from the lab: “Do Epigenetic Timers Control Petal Development?”.  You can access it here: https://www.frontiersin.org/...
April 12, 2021
Today we welcome Archana to the lab as our newest postdoc! Archana obtained her Ph.D. in Horticulture from Cornell University, and will be working on characterizing candidate...
March 18, 2021
Thorn meristems and axillary meristems are adjacent yet produce different structures. We have shown that the Citrus CENTRORADIALIS (CsCEN) gene maintains the proliferative...
March 1, 2021
We sadly say goodbye to Fei and Yewei, who move back to Wuhan where Fei starts a new job as assistant professor at Huazhong Agricultural University.  Good luck Fei, we wish...