2025

June 2025: Team members participate in the Learning Satellite Program with Hokkaido University

• The group takes part in welcoming Dr.  Hidetaka Ito and Dr. Satoshi Naramoto and the students from Hokkaido University for a week-long for Learning Satellite Program at Chulalongkorn University. So much fun learning about tissue regeneration, transposable elements, drought and flooding responses, and bryophyte evolution!

May 2025: Kulisara, Phattharaphon and Matchima showcase their research findings at Science Forum 2025 

• After a year of hard work, our amazing undergrads Kulisara Moothongkham, Phattharaphon Kaeosaeng, and Matchima Suriwong are proudly presenting their research to the community at the Science Forum 2025!

March 2025: Phanomsak passes PhD thesis proposal defense, yay!

• Phanomsak successfuly defends his research proposal, advancing to PhD candidate, congrats! 

January 2025: Phanomsak passes the quals!

• Congratulations to our first PhD student Phanomsak who passes all the qualifying exams! 

June 23 - 27, 2025: Hokkaido University Learning Satellite Program

May 20, 2025: Undergrad Research Presentation at Science Forum 2025

2024

December 2024: Supakit passes thesis proposal defense and lab holidays

• Supakit marks the first graduate student from the lab to pass thesis proposal defense, congratulations!

• Team lunch at Era-izaankaya Surawong to cerebrate the year of hard work. Clearly we've built so much character in 2024 with lots of challenges in both lab greenhouse and field work.

November 2024: Thanin gives talk at the 3rd International Conference on Rice for the Future

• Thanin represents the lab to give an overview of our collaborative project with the Prachinburi Rice Research Center on  the characterization of flood-tolerant rice mutants at the 3rd International Conference on Rice for the Future hosted by the Thailand Rice Science Research Hub of Knowledge, Rice Science Center, Kasetsart University. It's an amazing opportunity for reunion with old friends!

September 2024: Our first field flooding experiment and debut in cacao research

• Our field study of flood-tolerant rice lines is carried out for the first time at Prachin Buri Rice Research Center and we fails miserably. 

• We accept an invitation of Dr. Thansiphorn Na Nan (Chula's School of Agricultural Resources) to initiate cacao research in Chiang Mai. Interestingly, our first trip is greeted with flooding! 

July 2024: Welcome Vanessa and Pradchapon for lab summer internship

• We are pleased to host BBTech students Vanessa Goeyardi and Pradchapon (Ken) Dechakorn for lab summer internship. Vanessa and Ken will be working with PhD student Phanomsak on flood-adaptive strategies of rice.

April 2024: Pattarayuth showcases his work at TURFPaG 2024

• Our undergrad student Pattarayuth Nakkongkum nails his presentation with a story of his mission to rescue a mRNA decay mutant at the 9th Thailand Undergraduate Research Forum on Plants and Genetics (TURFPaG) and wins the Best Presentation award, GG!

March 2024: Supakit and Nathaphong co-organize an outreach activity to teach primary and secondary school students about DNA   

• DPST fellows Supakit, Nathaphong and Lawan (Chadchawan Group) co-organize an outreach activity to teach middle- and high-schoolers about genetic material and structure of eukaryotic cells. This one-day event at Rajaprajanugroh 47 School, Petchaburi Province is supported by the Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University and organized in conjunction with students from the Graduate Programs in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.

January 2024: We welcome Phanomsak and cerebrate the New Year!

• New Year cerebration with our colleagues within the Center of Excellence in Environment and Plant Physiology (CEEPP) at Sizzler, MBK Center. Thank you to our CEEPP Director for all the support and delicious dinner!

• Group dinner at Petite Audrey Cafe, Siam Center to officially welcome new members, Supakit, Nathaphong and Phanomsak, and cerebrate the New Year 2024.

• Phanomsak Tomjai joins the group and receives C2F scholarship to pursue a PhD in Biotechnology. Congratulations!

December 20, 2024: Lab Holidays Cerebration at Era-izaankaya Surawong

November 14 - 15, 2024: Thanin attending the 3rd International Conference on Rice for the Future

September 30, 2024: Marking Our Group's Debut in Cacao Research

September - December, 2024: Field Study of Flood-Tolerant Rice Mutants at Prachin Buri Rice Research Center

April 26, 2024: Pattarayuth giving an award-winning "Mission Possible" talk at the 9th TURFPaG meeting

March 4, 2024: "The Secrets of DNA" Day at Rajaprajanugroh 47 School, Petchaburi

January 2024: Our Group and CEEPP Dinners to Cerebrate the New Year!

2022

December 2022: End-of-semester and lab (winter) holidays dinner 

• • Current and past members of our group cerebrate the end of 2022 school year at Gogida, Samyan Mitrtown before heading home for the holidays.

November 2022: Congratulations to our new graduates Nene and Tiger!

• • Shout out to our new graduates on their commencement ceremony. Both looks great in their traditional Chula graduation gown!

  • Congratulations to Nene on her first job after graduation as BBTech program coordinator! 

October 2022: Welcome Thammaporn!

• • We officially welcome our first postdoc Dr. Thammaporn Kojonna and congratulations on the award of a postdoctoral scholarship from the Ratchadapiseksomphot Endowment Fund

August 2022: Welcome Kittaporn!

• • Kittaporn Jainan joins the Department of Botany and our group for a master's degree in Botany.

  • Thanin gives a talk at the Department of Plant Sciences, Australian National University on mRNA decay in plants: pathway specificity, redundancy, and compensation

July 2022: Welcome Pattarayuth and our project is funded!

• • Thanin receives a "Research Grant for New Scholar" from the Thai Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation to study physiological and genetic basis of flooding tolerance in mutagenized rice lines generated by our collaborators from the Rice Department.

  • Undergraduate student Pattarayuth joins the group for a summer internship, learning different things about plant genetics.

April 2022: Welcome Supapit!

• • Botany undergraduate student Supapit Jongjaroen joins the group for research proposal development on a flood survival strategy of rice.

January 2022: Welcome Ayaz Ahmad!

• • Ayaz from Pakistan (PhD Program in Biotechnology) conducts a one-semester rotation with us, studying submergence tolerance in Thai rice.

December 22, 2022: Group Dinner before Lab Holidays

Chula 2022 Commencement Ceremony: Congratulations to Nene and Tiger!

2020

October 2020: The Chantarachot Group is established at Chulalongkorn University

• Thanin joins the faculty at the Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University.