News

     Congratulations, Rachel, on coming in second place on your PhD flash talk at the 2019 HCS Graduate Research Symposium!  Nice job!

     Congratulations, Bo, for being selected to display your research on grapevine ribosomal protein gene evolution at the 2019 International Scholar Research Exposition!  A poster presenting his results is displayed outside President Drake's office until the end of the year. 

     Cullen Dixon is a Translational Plant Sciences graduate student rotating in our lab this fall.  He is investigating genes responsible for the musky flavor produced by some wild and hybrid grapevine varieties.    

     Rachel Combs is a graduate student through the Translational Plant Sciences Graduate Program.  She is joining our lab this fall to investigate the genetics underlying fatty acid biosynthesis in pennycress.  We are happy to have her in

     Esha, Josias, and Patrick had a busy summer, using QPCR to explore genes involved in important agronomic traits in grapevine, including cold tolerance, breaking bud dormancy, and flowering.  All three presented posters at Summer Research Symposia.  Nice work! 

     Josias and Esha received the Center for Applied Plant Sciences (CAPS) Pre-Doctoral Summer Research Award to carry out research projects over the summer.

     Dr. Li joined the Gschwend Lab in May and will take the lead on our wild grapevine genome sequencing and comparative genomic projects.  

   Our grapevines have grown nicely over the past few months and are doing great in the greenhouse.  The students in the lab have been collecting chilling requirement, bud break, and phenotypic data for our grapevine accessions throughout propagation.  Tissue will be collected

       We received our native Vitis grapevine cuttings today!  These grapevines will be propagated and utilized for our sequencing and comparative genomic projects.

     We are currently recruiting graduate students for the Fall 2020 semester!  If you are interested in joining the Gschwend Lab for a M.S. or Ph.D., click to read more...