January 3, 2025
Considering the world’s growing population and less land being available for farming, it’s becoming more important than ever to increase nutritional quality and crop yield of food crops. One way to achieve this is by genetically modifying a plant by introducing a foreign gene (called a transgene) from another organism, essentially giving the plant a […]
December 11, 2024
Dr. Hong Luo has received a $650,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study the unintended consequences of three site-specific DNA recombination systems commonly used to genetically engineer target crops. 5th year Ph.D. student in Dr. Jennifer Mason’s lab Josh Turner was recently awarded an Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (EMGS) travel grant […]
May 9, 2024
Assistant professor James Lewis was awarded a grant totaling $1,327,489 from the National Science Foundation for his proposal, “CAREER: Functional genomic architecture and population differentiation of a polygenic and sexually dimorphic butterfly mimicry phenotype.” Assistant professor Jennifer Mason received a $50,000 grant supplement from the American Cancer Society to perform a small compound screen to […]
