August 6, 2024
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 […]
August 6, 2024
Dr. Stephen Dolan published “Convergent evolution in toxin detection and resistance provides evidence for conserved bacterial–fungal interactions” in PNAS. Dr. Shahid Mukhtar recently published “EccDNA in plant-stress and biotechnological solutions in agriculture” in the journal Trends in Biology. Ph.D. student with Dr. Jim Morris, Sabrina Pizarro published her work in JoVE titled “Measuring Dynamic Glycosomal pH […]
August 6, 2024
Arohi Singhal, Ph.D. student in Dr. Kerry Smith’s lab, placed 1st in Clemson’s iGRADS competition, which aims to help graduate students effectively communicate their research to an audience. In addition, she received the People’s Choice Award. Dr. Haiying Laing was presented a Clemson University Library Open Access Publishing Fund Award earlier this summer for her […]
August 6, 2024
Dr. Hong Luo’s grant proposal to the USDA-NIFA was funded with a total of $650,000 for four years starting on September 1, 2024. Drs. Trudy Mackay (contact PI) and Robert Anholt (co-PI) were awarded $170,000 for their grant, “Genetic modifiers of Sanfilippo A and B in Drosophila” by the Cure Sanfilippo Foundation. Dr. Shahid Mukhtar is […]
July 31, 2024
Tara Doucet-O’Hare, Ph.D. Dr. Doucet-O’Hare received her Bachelor of Arts in Biological Sciences with a minor in Spanish from Clemson University in 2010. She then attended the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Baltimore, MD) and earned a Ph.D. in Human Genetics in 2016 before beginning her first post-doctoral research position at the National Institute of […]
July 24, 2024
Professor Dr. Shahid Mukhtar will lead a study aimed to develop sustainable ways to increase soybean yields in heat and drought. The National Science Foundation will fund the research through a $6 million Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) grant. Soybeans, which are the second most widely planted crop in the United States, are threatened to decrease […]
July 12, 2024
Caroline Graham ’28 Freshman biochemistry major Caroline Graham loves hanging out with friends, getting ice cream, playing soccer and pickleball and being in the water. So, with Clemson as her new home, you may find her frequenting 55 Exchange, the intermural fields, the rowing docks or the Fike pool. Choosing Clemson for its beautiful campus […]
July 11, 2024
James Lewis, an assistant professor, was awarded a $1.3 million National Science Foundation CAREER grant. The NSF CAREER Award is among the most prestigious in the nation for early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in their field. Dr. Lewis will study Heliconiine butterflies […]
June 20, 2024
Professor Dr. Alex Feltus is part of a new collaborative research study that found some genetic traits modern humans inherited from Neanderthals may increase a person’s susceptibility to autism. The study suggests long-term effects of ancient human hybridization on brain organization and function and could possibly lead to earlier diagnosis. “This is the first evidence that […]
June 14, 2024
Crystal Pitts In May the Department of Genetics and Biochemistry welcomed Crystal Pitts as their new graduate program coordinator. Crystal, originally from Brooklyn, NY, has lived in the Upstate for most of her life. She graduated from Lander University in 2022 with a degree in Business Administration and is set to receive her MBA in […]
