Three Genetics and Biochemistry undergraduate students, Kaitlyn Anderson, Berkeley Cannon and Brittain Gaines ran a G&B sponsored table at the Be A T.I.G.E.R. Field Day, an event for children that was before the Spring Football Game.
Biochemistry student Mary Grace Flowers represented Clemson University and the department at the 2025 Meeting of the Minds conference, a prestigious undergraduate research and creative inquiry conference that brings students from all 18 ACC member institutions together. Mary presented her research “Examining the Role of Sex in Bone Remodeling using Differential Feeding Stresses.”
Dr. Haiying Laing’s lab attended the 86th Annual 2025 Southern Section of the American Society of Plant Biologists Meeting and four Ph.D. students presented a poster on their dissertation research: Jiayin Liu, Xinya Lu, Amanda Minner and Ruikan Zhang.
Many G&B students participated in presenting their research at the 20th Annual Focus on Creative Inquiry (FoCI) event, Clemson’s university-wide poster forum that showcases undergraduate research, service-learning and other experiential learning activities supported by the CI program.
In April Dr. Haiying Laing’s lab participated in an outreach event at the Hemlock Festival in Mountain Rest, SC, where they engaged with the public, providing educational information on American chestnut trees and the restoration efforts. The lab also volunteered with The American Chestnut Foundation at a Chestnut Return Farm. They inoculated American chestnut trees with blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica for resistance screening. Students involved include Jay Liu, Sky Lu, Roger Zhang and Stone Chen.
