Fun times at the SIPS holiday party
Check out the SIPS posting about the holiday party to see the Specht lab enjoying some festive times before the end of the semester:
Celebrating Jacob, Justin, Josh, and Jeremie’s Contributions at Botany 2024!
Congratulations to Jacob, Justin, Josh, and Jeremie for their outstanding presentations at the Botany 2024 Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Jacob delivered a talk titled Comparative genomics of Calochortus Pursh. with an emphasis on ...
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Julianna presents at the Mycological Society of America conference!
Kudos to Julianna who recently attended the Mycological Society of America conference in Markham, Ontario, Canada! This year, Julianna was the recipient of the MSA Interchange Invitee Award which provided funds to attend the ...
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Congratulations, PhD Graduate Heather Phillips!!!!
Dr. Heather Phillips graduated from Cornell’s Graduate School with a PhD in Plant Biology on May 25th 2024. She’s off to Stanford to start a postdoc with José Dinneny building tools for investigating ...
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Cover of PNAS
We (well, Calochortus tolmiei to be exact) got the cover of PNAS!! Congratulations to Nisa Karimi for being the first author on this paper that represents a collaboration between Tom Givnish and ...
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Queens of the Lab!!!
The Specht Lab is excited to celebrate the career accomplishments of Dr. Heather Phillips (seated, left) and HHMI Gilliam Fellow Ayress Grinage (seated, right). Heather was offered and accepted a postdoc position with José ...
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Heather Phillips passes her B exam and is officially ABD!!!
11/31/23 Congratulations for passing your B exam, Heather. And thanks for leading a celebration in style!! Heather achieves the highest level of fame, having her portrait hung on the wall of the 413 ...
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We’ve updated the website…
The Specht Lab group comprises a powerful cohort of fearless researchers — including grads, undergrads, and postdocs — all working together to understand the patterns and processes of plant evolution and diversification. Chelsea Specht ...
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Graduation 2022
Congratulations to Dra. Adriana Hernández and Dr. Jesús Martínez-Gómez on their PhDs in Plant Biology from Cornell University. Its impossible to express how proud we are of you, for all you’ve contributed to Cornell ...
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Introducing Dr. Martínez-Gómez!!!
On April 29th, Jesús Martínez-Gómez became the second graduate student in two weeks to successfully defend his dissertation and earn is PhD in Plant Biology. Congratulations, Dr. Martínez-Gómez!!!! Jesús’ dissertation is entitled: A morphological ...
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