Joyce Chery, former graduate student in the Specht Lab, graduated with a PhD in Integrative Biology from UC Berkeley this past weekend (May 24, 2019). Joyce received her undergraduate from Cornell!! working with now-retired ...
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Earlier this May, Clarice and Heather teamed up with fellow first-year Plant Bio grads Pat Mendoza and Gordon Younkin, to organize an activity for the Big Red Barn’s annual Kids’ Science Day event. One ...
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Adriana Hernandez, 2nd year graduate student in Plant Biology and member of the Specht Lab, was awarded a 2019 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. This will fund her stipend as she carries out her research ...
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Adriana, second year PhD student, is largely interested in applying genomic tools to conservation research. She has focused her research on a California endemic lily, Calochortus venustus, and studies floral diversification, evolutionary history, and ...
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Diversity Preview Weekend is a three day event that brings students interested in EEB, Entomology and SIPS to the Cornell campus, to learn about graduate school before they apply. It specifically recruits students from ...
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This post is a little late, but I attend eFlower Summer School at Oak Spring Garden in Virginia last Fall! A 10 day phylogenetic comparative methods school for botanist all around the world. The ...
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As part of our education and outreach initiatives, the Specht lab will participate in a one day family-friendly event organized and hosted by the Cornell Botanical Garden called Judy’s Day: Family Learning Festival. The ...
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Team Presenting A-Team Carrie Tribble, Eugenio Valderrama, Samuel Vanden Abeele, María Pinilla-Vargas Adaptation Adriana Hernandez, Jacob Landis, Shayla Salzman, Rosemary Glos, Suzy Strickler Evo-Devo Jesús Martinez-Gómez, Clarice Guan, Heather Phillips, Joyce Chery
The second year of my graduate school journey came like a flash. As I start to get into the grind of teaching, taking classes, and jumping into lab work, I also want to take ...
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Chelsea Specht, Susan McCouch and Erika Styger received an Academic Venture Fund grant from the Atkinson Center to investigate the genomics of African rice that is currently cultivated by the Saramaka people in Suriname. ...
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