Lablog
2024
Sep 19
We are glad that the research results of three projects have been published recently, including the application of k-mer GWAS in maize, an AI application in mini-chromosome prediction, and a bioinformatics pipeline Homotools, which is the first article in the new journal Genomics Communications.
Aug 12
Our manuscript using an AI model to predict the presence of supernumerary chromosomes in blast fungal strains is online. This is a nice application of the powerful AI technology in genomics. We will continue such applications.
Jun 12
Lab members attended the Rice and Wheat Blast Conference and presented our work in Panama. It was a very nice small meeting. Look forward to the next meeting in Paris.
Mar 1
Hui Liu and Olamide Adesina presented their results in the annual Maize Genetics Conference meeting in Raleigh NC.
Jan 22
Lidia Calderon was a visiting scholar working on the wheat blast study at K-State. We are glad she starts her MS in the program of Plant Pathology from Spring 2024. Welcome Lidia!
Jan 22
Happy New Year! Welcome our new MS graduate students Jane Mascarenhas. She will work on testing new approaches to study pathogen-host interactions.
2023
Dec 1
Took lab group photos on a snowy day. It was fun.
Nov 26
Our manuscript presenting evidence to support independent introduction of wheat blast to Bangladesh and Zambia is online at New Phytologist. In the manuscript, we also document the rapid changes in the mini-chromosome.
Aug 15
Welcome our new PhD graduate student Olamide Adesina. He will work on our Goss’s wilt project to identify resistance genes.
Aug 1
We are grateful to have the new funding support from the PGRP program from the NSF. To know more, please read this press release.
May 30
Erica Stier will be our REEU student this summer. She will work on genetic mapping of Goss’s wilt resistance in maize.
May 26
Our manuscript about a bacterial protein delivery system for studying gene regulation in host cells has been accepted in the Plant Cell. Congratulations to the team! Here is the online manuscript.
May 15
We are delighted to have Dr. Hui Liu join our lab as a postdoc. She will contribute to our ongoing projects supported by NSF and DOE.
2022
June 4
Welcome the summer REEU student Eva Burke to join the lab. She will work on understanding the genome of a recently collected fungal isolate causing wheat blast.
June 4
Thrilled for the acceptation of the Lr42 manuscript in Nature Communications. This is a collaborative work from many labs. Thank Dr. Guifang Lin for leading the effort.
March 20
Welcome Dr. Yangfan Hao joining the lab. She will work on maize Goss’s wilt resistance and machine learning related projects.
2021
December 11
lab photo 2021
August 16
The new semester is coming. We are very glad to have our new graduate student Ravi Bika and two new undergraduate students Allyson Blank and Macy Hoskinson. Welcome!
July 12
Welcome Dr. Tej Man Tamang joining the lab. He will work on maize transformation and CRISPR-based genome editing and gene expression regulation.
June 9
Our A188 genome manuscript by Lin et al. was accepted by Genome Biology. Genetic materials created by using A188 will be valuable for our next five years research.
May 18
Guifang Lin started her postdoc position in the lab and we welcome PhD student Nikesh Gyawali from the Department of Computer Science to join our lab to work on various computational projects this summer.
May 14
A special K-State Commencement Ceremony during the Covid-19 pandemic. All graduates and professors were with masks and social distance. Congratulations! Dr. Guifang Lin.
2020
Jan 11th
Dr. Cheng He and graduate students Guifang Lin and Ha Le presented their research at PAG (International Plant & Animal Genome) conference.
2019
Dec 30th
Group photo 2019
Jul 13th
BBQ party at Tuttle Creek State Park
Jun 15th
Dr. Huakun Zheng joined our lab as a visiting scholar. He will be working on genomic dynamics of fungal mini-chromosomes.
Apr 26th
Field planting team
Jan 12th
Welcome Dr. Bhanu Kalia to join the lab! She will work on the wheat leaf and stripe rust projects.
2018
Dec 30th
Welcome Dr. Mingxia Zhao to join us starting from Dec 28th 2019! She will work on our NSF-funded project to understand maize regeneration.
Oct 31st
Two maize glossy genes were identified through the collaboration among Wang lab at CAAS, Schnable lab at ISU, and our lab. Now the manuscript was published in the Plant journal.
Sep 1st
Excited to start the NSF PGRP project. Will work closely with Sunghun Park (K-State), Frank White (UF), Myeong-Je Cho (UC-Berkeley), and Hairong Wei (MTU). The project was briefly described in K-State news.
Aug 24th
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Group photo 2018
Aug 23rd
Welcome Marlenny Grullon, an undergraduate student majoring in Agronomy, to join the lab.
Aug 12th
Welcome Jinguang Lin, a PhD student in Statistics, to join the lab.
Jul 15th
Thrilled to have our Goss’s wilt project funded by NSF/NIFA Plant Biotic Interactions Program. Will work with Frank White at UF and Alison Robertson at ISU on this exciting project.
Apr 28th
First planting day in 2018.
Feb 10th
Our XP-CNV paper is officially online. A general approach was developed to associate CNV with phenotypic traits. Thank all co-authors for their contributions.
2017
Dec 16th
Welcome Dr. Cheng He to join the lab. Dr. He will work on gene/isoform transcriptomics of maize.
Sep 18th
Our tGBS paper was accepted by Nucleic Acids Research. Congratulations to all authors!
Jun 4th
Northeast Forestry University visiting in China hosted by Drs. Guifeng Liu, Hairong Wei, Yanting Jiang (6/4-6). Very impressed by tree genetic studies there.
May 24th
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University visiting in China (5/24-25). Discussions with Dr. Weiren Wu for a potential collaboration and student visiting to KSU.
May 4th
Sanzhen’s advisor, Dr. Patrick Schnable, visited KSU and had a nice discussion with lab members.
Apr 28th
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Great field team
Apr 18th
Sanzhen’s Colorado State University visiting hosted by Dr. Kirk Broders (4/18-20). Great visit and had nice interactions with postdocs and graduate students
Apr 16th
Group photo 2017
Mar 13th
Congratulations to Pierre Migeon for his successful thesis defense!
Feb 10th
Our k-mer analysis for comparative genomics was accepted by Scientific Report and is online today. Click here for the manuscript.
Feb 8th
Dr. Hairong Wei’s visiting. He gave a great talk for summarizing the algorithms that he and his team developed for constructing gene regulation networks. We also found our collaboration projects between the two labs.
Jan 17th
Guifang Lin starts her Ph.D. study this semester. She will work on the genetic bases of maize regeneration and wheat resistance to leaf rust.
2016
Dec 29th
Dr. Junjie Fu started his 40 days short visiting.
Nov 3rd
Dr. James Schnable’s visiting and discussion for the collaboration.
Oct 13th
Dr. Jun Zheng’s short visiting. Dr. Zheng is an associate professor from CAAS.
Oct 8th
Welcome Daniel Park to become our Bioinformatician
Sep 22nd
Dr. Erliang Zeng’s visiting to the lab. Dr. Zeng is an assistant professor at University of South Dakota. He gave a nice talk in our department about his network studies.
May 25th
Summer nursery suffered a severe flood.
May 8th
Welcome Dan Park to join the lab for his 3-month Summer internship
Apr 22nd
summer nursery planting
Mar 30th
Group photo 2016
Mar 2nd
Dr. Yihui Xie’s visiting to the Department of Plant Pathology. He introduced multiple useful tools (e.g., Bookdown) to us and answered many questions related to R programming.
Jan 10th
Welcome our new postdoc Dr. Ying Hu to join us starting from Jan 10th 2016!
2015
Dec 21st
Zhao Peng’s work “Long read and single molecule DNA sequencing simplifies genome assembly and TAL effector gene analysis of Xanthomonas translucens” was accepted at BMC Genomics. Congratulations Zhao!