TEXAS A&M GENETICS AND GENOMICS PHD PROGRAM OVERVIEW
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Congratulations to our Genetics and Genomics students, Emmarie Alexander, from Dr. Bill Murphy’s laboratory, and Aaron DeSalvio, from Dr. Seth Murray’s laboratory, on being selected for the prestigious 2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)! Emmarie and Aaron are two of 6 winners from Texas A&M, with only 3 in the Life Sciences at Texas A&M!
Emmarie is interested in using genomic tools to investigate the complex evolutionary history of mammals by way of their genome to their phylogeographic structure. She is particularly interested in mammals of conservation concern, such as pangolins and felids. Currently, Emmarie is parsing the evolutionary origins and structure of mammalian sex chromosomes.
Aaron’s goal is to uncover the applicability of temporal spectral data to predict agronomically relevant traits in maize (corn) using a combination of high-throughput phenotyping (HTP) data captured by unoccupied aerial systems (drones) and genomic marker data. His current project is focused on performing single plant analysis, with the intent of uncovering differences in the performance of genetically identical plants. The goal is to enable single plant selection, which could greatly reduce the plant breeding cycle’s turnover time and increase genetic gains more rapidly. Additionally, he aims to enable researchers across the globe to implement HTP into their programs through methods-based publications and demonstrations using open-access data collected on our lab’s agricultural experiments in College Station.
We are so excited to celebrate this achievement with you!
Congratulations to PhD student, Daniela Ruiz of the Sun lab, for being selected to receive the Spring 2023 GGSA Conference Award!
Daniela has been selected for this award to support her upcoming presentation at the American Chemical Society – Many Flavors of Chemistry meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana from March 17-21, 2024. She will be presenting her research titled “Microbe interaction unveiled through Click Chemistry”.
Good luck on your presentation, and we know you’ll do great!
Congratulations to PhD candidate, Alexandra Naron of the Threadgill lab, for being selected to receive the Spring 2023 GGSA Conference Award!
Alexandra received this award for attending the 4th international Conference on Precision Nutrition and Metabolism in Public Health and Medicine in Ioannina, Greece from June 25-30, 2023, where she presented a talk titled ‘Multiple loci drive diet-induced thermogenesis in mice exposed to a ketogenic diet’.
We’re so happy for you Alexandra, and we can’t wait to see where you head to present your research next!
Congratulations to PhD candidate, Kaitlyn Carter of the Threadgill lab, for being selected to receive the Spring 2023 GGSA Conference Award!
Kaitlyn received this award for attending the Texas Genetics Society Meeting in Austin, TX from March 23-25, 2023, and presented a poster titled ‘Identifying the candidate gene mechanisms and underlying modifier genes that lead to genetic context dependencies on tumor growth in the absence of ERBB3 in colorectal cancer’.
We’re so proud of you Kaitlyn, and we can’t wait to see where your research takes you next!
Congratulations to PhD student, Hannah Carter from the Porter lab, on being selected to receive the Spring 2023 GGSA Conference Award!
Hannah received this award for attending the Society of Developmental Biology 82nd Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois from July 20-23, 2023. She presented a poster titled ‘Exploring a Singleminded-2s/Sirtuin interaction in the regulation of mitochondrial dynamics”.
We’re very proud of you, Hannah, way to go! We’re excited to see what you do next!
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