Dr. Haiying Liang and her team attended the South Carolina Hemlock Festival on April 20, bringing awareness of American chestnut diseases and restoration efforts. Dr. Liang and her students continue this effort with the help of Dr. Hong Luo and his students by educating the public. In addition, they assisted with controlled pollination and planting American chestnut trees at the Chestnut Return farm in Seneca, SC.
Center for Human Genetics staff, Vijay Shankar, Maria Adonay and John Poole organized the annual Clemson University RNA-seq retreat in collaboration with the Clemson University Genomics and Bioinformatics Facility. This three-day instructional workshop had an enrollment of 31 participants and provided an in-depth overview of transcriptomics, from experimental design to analysis and interpretation.
In late April Dr. Stephen Dolan’s lab took part in the Great Strides walk in Greenville to raise funds for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The Great Strides event brings people with a shared vision together and encourages collaboration, team building and leadership, while taking steps to find a cure for Cystic Fibrosis.
