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Big congrats on Jiaying for receiving 2024 Vice Chancellor Award, the most prestigious award for graduate research excellence @ CALS!

December 7, 2024 by xiuren.zhang

Big congrats on Taerin for receiving an excellence award @BCBP

December 7, 2024 by xiuren.zhang

Significant work from Dr. Songxiao Zhong in NCB came out today– huge congrats!

October 29, 2024 by xiuren.zhang

Niankui Li smoothly defended his thesis on Sept.30, 2024, Big congrats to Dr. Li for the excellent work!

October 29, 2024 by xiuren.zhang

Big congrats on Jiaying’s successful defense on Sept. 18, 2024. Way to go, Dr. Zhu!

September 22, 2024 by xiuren.zhang

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).