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Dr. Zhi Min Yang is visiting us!

March 28, 2016 by l-cortez

We are very fortunate to count with Dr. Yang’s expertise in our lab!

Dr. Zhi Min Yang is a Professor of Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology in Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU). He earned his PhD degree at NAU in 1999, and received his postdoctoral training at the University of Kagawa, Japan and Justus-Liebig University, Germany. He is working on physiological and molecular mechanisms for plant abiotic stress responses (salt, drought or heavy metals). Epigenetic regulation of stress tolerance, toxic metal uptake and accumulation in plants through small/long non-coding RNAs (e.g. microRNAs) and DNA methylation is currently major interest. He published 80 peer-reviewed papers and serves as associate/academic editors of Gene, Plant Gene and PloS One.

Taken from http://plantgenomics.conferenceseries.com/speaker/2016/zhi-min-yang-nanjing-agricultural-university-china

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Claudia just won Vice Chancellor’s Award in Excellence for Graduate Student Research!

March 28, 2016 by l-cortez

This is the most prestigious honor for a graduate student in Texas A&M.  Big Congratulations to Claudia. Keep on excellence!Claudia Castilla and Vice Chancellor Mark Hussey

Claudia Castillo and Xiuren Zhang

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Claudia was granted three prestigious awards in IPGB ceremony!

March 28, 2016 by l-cortez

Big Congratulations on these honors. We are very proud of you, Claudia!

Outstanding Graduate Student, Outstanding Citizen, and Outstanding Research Paper

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Dr. Zhang was granted the Outstanding Faculty Award at the IPGB!

March 28, 2016 by l-cortez

Big Congratulations and huge thanks for being such an inspiration, Dr Zhang!!!

Among many other amazing virtues, Dr. Zhang was acknowledged for his inspiring and humbling work ethic, his contagious dedication to science, his generosity as colleague and mentor, and his genuine care for his students and postdocs.

We are truly encouraged by Dr. Zhang, and we hope to learn from his example!

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Welcome on board Dr. Kai Cui!

March 28, 2016 by l-cortez

We are very pleased to have Dr. Cui joining our research team! He is visiting us for one year and we hope to exchange our skills in molecular biology with his expertise in forestry.

Dr. Cui is currently an Associate Profesor in the Chinese Academy of Forestry and his work focuses on the understanding of fast growing bamboo species.

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We are studying RNA silencing in the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana and several economically-important crops.

RNA silencing is a key regulatory process that controls various aspects of biology in eukaryotes including growth and development, antiviral defense and chromosome gardening. The common themes under RNA silencing include the biogenesis of small RNAs by DICERs or Dicer-like proteins and the incorporation of the small RNAs into Argonaute (AGO)-centered RNA-induced silencing complexes (RISCs). 

The RISCs execute the repressive or regulatory functions on target genes at the transcriptional or post-transcriptional levels.  Our long-term goals are to understand novel functions and mechanisms of RNA silencing in plants.

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2128 TAMU, Rm 316. College Station, TX 77840

e-mail: xiuren.zhang@tamu.edu

Tel: 979-458-0596

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