Introducing Dra. Adriana Hernández!
On Monday April 18th at approximately 5pm Eastern, following a brilliant presentation and defense of her dissertation, Dr. Adriana Hernandez was awarded her PhD in Plant Biology. ...
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Adriana presents at SACNAS 2021 National Diversity in STEM Conference
The Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) held their annual meeting from October 25-29 in a virtual format for the second year in a row. Despite not being ...
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Heather, Adriana win Schmittau-Novak awards
Heather Phillips and Adriana Hernandez are both recipients of a 2021 Schmittau-Novak award from the School of Integrative Plant Science. They are two of nine students across SIPS selected to receive this prestigious research ...
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Nola, Arya and Nick receive BSA Undergraduate Research Awards
In a record landslide, 3 researchers from the Specht Lab were awarded undergraduate research awards from the Botanical Society of America. Nola Rettenmeier, Arya Saksena, and Nick Rocha were each awarded $500.00 to support ...
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Nola awarded Dextra Undergraduate Research award
Nola Rettenmaier received $2,000 from the Dextra Undergraduate Research Endowment Fund to support her research on the genetic basis of floral fusion, carried out in collaboration with Graduate Student mentor Heather Phillips. Nola is ...
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Aaliyah receives Einhorn Discovery Grant!
Aaliyah Holiday was awarded the Einhorn Discovery Grant for undergraduate research through the College of Arts and Sciences! This award will go contribute to funding computational resources to analyze our “Monocot Empire” datasets. She ...
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Jesús presents Smithsonian Seminar, Department of Botany
2021-03-04 Botany Seminar – Martinez-Gomez
Downstream Variant Analyses Webinar
Postdoc Jacob Landis presented a Downstream Variant Analyses webinar with CyVerse on Friday February 5th. Slides and associated tutorials for both command line and point-and-click Discovery Environment are available on GitHub: https://github.com/bcbc-group/CyVerse_Variant_Analyses The webinar was ...
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Grad student do Virtual Judy’s Day: CALS Field Note Article and Radio Interview!
Earlier this Fall, Specht lab graduate students, Heather, Clarice and I help put together an online version of Judy’s Day Plants. Judy’s Day is biannual, family friendly event, that invites the Tompkins county community ...
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SNP Calling Webinar with CyVerse
Postdoc Jacob Landis presented a SNP calling webinar with CyVerse on Friday September 11th. Slides and associated tutorials for both command line and point-and-click Discovery Environment are available on GitHub: https://github.com/bcbc-group/CyVerese_SNP_calling_webinar The webinar covered ...
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