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• Carter is awarded the Graduate School Summer Research Grant!

  April 10, 2024

  Congratulations to Carter!

  

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• Congratulations to Dawei for his new publication in Journal of Experimental Botany!

  March 28, 2024

  Spatial regulation of immunity: unmasking the secrets of abaxial immunity to powdery mildew

  D Xu, L Yang

  Journal of Experimental Botany 75 (5), 1213-1216

  doi: 10.1093/jxb/erae019

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• Congratulations to Alan, Carter, Sheena and Wendy for their recent publication in Phytopathology.

  March 28, 2024

  Functional Characterization of Core and Unique Calcite Dissolving Bacteria Communities from Peanut Fields

  Alan Peper, Carter J. Newton, Sheena Lim, Wendy Zheng, Tim Brenneman, and Li Yang

  https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-10-23-0380-KC

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• Alan won another poster competition!

  April 21, 2023

  Alan Peper was recognized with second place in the graduate student poster competition at the Cleantech Symposium “Can Tech Save the World” at the UGA Delta Innovation Hub. Well-done, Alan!

  

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• Sorrel successfully defended their dissertation!

  April 12, 2023

  Congratulations to Sorrel Tran!

  

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• Congratulations to Lanxi Hu!

  March 31, 2023

  Congratulations to Lanxi who successfully defended her thesis today!

  

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• Our work on age-related resistance is published

  March 23, 2023

  A project led by Lanxi Hu studying age-related resistance is published in PLoS Pathogens. Congratulations to Lanxi and co-authors! https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1011218

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• Feng Kong published a review on plant development and defense

  March 9, 2023

  Feng Kong, a postdoc in our lab, published a review on plant development and defense (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1122947). We discuss that pathogen-induced changes in host development could be a target of pathogen virulence strategies or an active defense mechanism of plants.

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• Our work on salicylic acid and plant regeneration published!

  March 9, 2023

  This project, led by graduate student Sorrel Tran, revealed how salicylic acid, a key defense hormone, inhibits root regeneration. This work is published in PLOS GENETICS. (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010636)

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• Congratulations to Alan Peper!

  March 9, 2023

  Alan Peper (co-advised by Dr. Timothy Brenneman) has won the award for graduate student publication of the year (PHD level)!

  His paper, published in Frontiers in Microbiomes (https://doi.org/10.3389/frmbi.2022.1019134), sheds light on the functions of calcite dissolving bacteria in regulating soil calcium levels. This research has the potential to address soil calcium deficiency issues in peanut farmland.

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