Jan 2026
Rita from Southern Illinois University joined the lab as a new PhD student.
Dec 2025
Md Fahad Hasan and Edward Cedrick Fernandez won Gustav N. Geiszler Memorial Scholarship and Glenn S. Smith International Graduate Fellowship. Congrats!
Aug 2025
Dev joined the lab as a new MS student.
Our first wheat field season at Prosper ND is done!
Jul 2025
Yiting joined the lab as a postdoc scholar.
Jun 2025
The first manuscript from the lab led by Edward Cedrick Fernandez is out, with the focus of leaf gradient coordination with temperature response in barley Preprint.
Apr 2025
Fahad starts to work in our lab and will be our new PhD student in 2025 Fall. Fahad was a MS student at NDSU.
Feb 2025
Edward Cedrick Fernandez was selected as one of finalists for 2025 3MT at NDSU. Here is his story.
We started to have our very own lab space at Loftsgard!
Jan 2025
Edward Cedrick Fernandez won the MaGNeT travel award to attend his first Maize Genetics Conference at St Louis, MO!
Shuang Wu from Department of Computer Sciences took over the work of Gaoya for our seed management.
May 2024
Edward Cedrick Fernandez joined the lab as the very first PhD student.
Apr 2024
Gaoya Tu joined the lab as the very first person and helped on initializing multiple projects and greenhouse management.
Aug, 2023
Zhikai Liang started his new position as an Assistant Professor at North Dakota State University.