September 2026
- Regina Fairbanks graduates! Heading off to a postdoc with Julia Kreiner
August 2026
- Preprint alert! New work on single cell RNA-seq and QTL mapping to learn about the genetics of maize domestication. Collaboration with former lab postdoc Ning Yang. preprint
May 2026
- Forrest starts a 4 month internship with Corteva in Iowa
- MexMAGIC paper accepted in New Phytologist!
March 2026
- Lab attends the Maize Meeting in Cologne
- Regina is awarded a Chicago Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with Dr. Julia Kreiner at U. Chicago!
February 2026
- Preprint alert! Collaboration on the math behind a long-standing idea based on empirical work from former lab postdocs Wenbin Mei, Sion Renny-Byfield, and Edwin Solares. preprint
- Preprint alert! New work from Sam and Forrest on how human movement and language have (not?) shaped maize diversity. Key contributions from former lab members Mitra Menon and Sowmya Mambakkam, along with REU students Luke Sparreo and Claudia Perez! preprint
January 2026
- Julia receives a JGI grant to sequence and assemble radish genomes!
- Elli begins her postdoc with the Gaut Lab at UC Irvine!
- Alyssa accepts a job as research conservation geneticist with the Atlanta Botanical Gardens!
- Jeff gives E&E Seminar at Davis