The Chantarachot Group

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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!

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.

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!

April 26, 2024: Pattarayuth gives 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!

2023

We receive funding through Chulalongkorn University's Fundamental Fund (BCG Platform) to study anaerobic germination of rice.

Supakit Jaiyindee and Nathaphong Jantasri join our group as master's students in the Genetics program.

With the Franco-Thai Young Talent Research Fellowship, Thanin relocates to the beautiful city of Strasbourg to learn about Nanopore sequencing and explore the world of mRNA decay with the Gagliardi Group at IBMP, CNRS.

Thanin is awarded the 2023 Franco-Thai Young Talent Research Fellowship from the French Embassy and PMU-B of Thailand to investigate the mechanism of cytoplasmic mRNA decay with the team of Dr. Dominique Gagliardi at the Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes (IBMP) in Strasbourg.

July - December 2023: Thanin spends six months in Strasbourg with the group of Dr. Dominique Gagliardi

2022

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

- 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!

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

- Kittporn 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

- 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.

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

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

December 22, 2022: Group Pictures and Lab Holidays Dinner

Chula 2022 Commencement Ceremony: Congratulations to Nene and Tiger!

2021

- Thanin gives a plenary lecture at the Biological Sciences Graduate Congress (virtually) hosted by the National University of Singapore.

- Chula Botany undergraduate students Krissadaporn and Chokanan join the group for honor projects on anaerobic germination and flooding tolerance in Thai rice.

2020

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