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September 14th, 2022- Taehoon received the Muriel Rumsey Foundation Scholarship award. Congratulations Taehooon!
September 9th, 2022 - Taehoon passed his qualifying exam. Congratulations Taehooon!
August 24th, 2022 - Yichun Wang, PMCB student, joins the lab. Welcome, Yichun!
June 8th, 2022 - Andrew received the Ambassador Alliance travel award to participate in the ASPB Plant Biology 2022. Congratulation Andrew!
May 31st - Our review on Molecular and Computational Strategies to Increase the Efficiency of CRISPR-Based Techniques was published in Frontiers in Plan science.
April 15th - Taehoon received the 2022 ASHS Outstanding graduate Horticulture Student Award - Congratulations Taehoon!
April 5th 2022 - Our collaborative manuscript on The Arabidopsis HDZIP Class II Transcription Factor ABIG1 Functions in Leaf Development was published in the Journal of Experimental Botany.
anuary 9th 2022 - our manuscript on the analysis of ScRpb4, Encoding an RNA Polymerase Subunit from Sugarcane, Is Ubiquitously Expressed and Resilient to Changes in Response to Stress Conditions was published in Agriculture.
January 1st 2022 - Our collaborative manuscript on the Evaluation of Native and Nonnative Ornamentals as Pollinator Plants in Florida was published in HortScience.
October 25th - Our book chapter on Epigenetics in horticultural crops: Consequences and applications in abiotic stress tolerance was published on the book Stress Tolerance in Horticultural Crops.
August 23th 2021 - Emma Piper joins the lab! Welcome Emma!
July 1st 2021 – Our manuscript on Unconventional routes to developing insect-resistant crops was published in Molecular Plant.
Congratulations to Adina (Masters), Katie and Alec (Bachelors) for their graduation!
May 6th 2021 – Congratulations to Adina for her first manuscript on the analysis of Ploidy Level and Genetic Parameters for Phenotypic Traits in Bermudagrass (Cynodon spp.) Germplasm .
April 17th 2021 – Congratulations to Taehoon and Shafina for their first Manuscript Published in BMC Plant Biology on the Genome-wide identification of heat shock factors and heat shock proteins in response to UV and high intensity light stress in lettuce .
January 29th 2021 – Andrew won the 1st place poster competition award in the Plant Science Symposium - Breeding and Genomics in Specialty Crops, Congratulations Andrew, Good Job!
January 15th 2021 – Alec Dunker joins the lab! Welcome Alec!
January 11th 2021 – Katie Chase joins the lab! Welcome Katie!
January 1st 2021 – Andrew Egesa joins the lab! Welcome Andrew!
August 15th 2020 – Larissa Laforest, a PCMB student, joins the lab! Welcome Larissa!
June 20th, 2020 – We published a Collaborative work on Cover Crops, Hormones and Herbicides: Priming an Integrated Weed Management Strategy in Plant Science.
June 2nd, 2020 – Dr. Begcy received the Innovative Teaching Award Association of Public and Land-grant Universities.
May 1st, 2020 – Shafina, Blake and Gabriel graduated from the undergraduate program in Plant Science at UF - Congratulations to all of you! Great Job!
March 9th,2020 – A Collaborative manuscript on the Transcript Cleavage in RNA Polymerase II Transcriptional Elongation was published in The Plant Cell. Excellent collaboration with Thomas Dresselhaus and Klaus Grasser from the University of Regensburg in Germany.
March 6th,2020 – Makenzie received one of the University Scholar Program Awards! Congratulations Makenzie!
March 6th,2020 – Melina received one of the University Scholar Program Award! Congratulations Melina!
January 8th,2020 – Yuan Yuan joins the lab! Welcome Yuan!
January 2nd, 2020 – Dr. Begcy received an Early Career Seed Grant from IFAS
January 1st,2020 – Taehoon Kim joins the lab! Welcome Taehoon!
December 14,2019 – Blake Costine joins the lab! Welcome Blake!
October 28,2019 – Melina Michel joins the lab! Welcome Melina!
October 4, 2019 – Two manuscripts, Analysis of Epigenetic Modifications During Vegetative and Reproductive Development in Cereals Using Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP) and Genome-Wide Identification of Allele-Specific Gene Expression in a Parent-of-Origin Specific Manner , were published in Cereal Genomics. Methods in Molecular Biology!
October 1, 2019 – Makenzie Meikle joins the lab! Welcome Makenzie!
September 24,2019 – Dr. Begcy gave a talk to the UF Environmental Horticulture Club!
September 16,2019 – Evert Valera, a visiting scholar from Ecuador, joins the lab! Welcome Evert!
September 23,2019 – Dr. Begcy gave a talk to in the UF Environmental Horticulture Department Seminar Series Fall 2019!
August 29, 2019 – Karolina Zakarkaite joins the lab! Welcome Karolina!
August 14, 2019 – Dr. Begcy gave a talk to the Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology (PMCB ) program at UF.
August 4, 2019 – Our manuscript on the effect of transient heat stress during tetrad stage of pollen development was published in Plant Physiology!
July 15, 2019 – Shafina Samraj joins the lab! Welcome Shafina!
May 24, 2019– Our manuscript was published in Annals of Botany on the characterization of an unknown function sugarcane gene in response to drought and salinity !
April 15, 2019 – Gabriel Alexander joins the lab! Welcome Gabriel!
April 1, 2019 – Begcy Lab doors open!
