2025/08/29: Congratulations to Isaiah for winning the First Place Talk Award at the BMB Retreat!
2025/07/29: Polly's talk on nested ORFs at ASPB was highlighted on the PlantBio Daily Review Day 4!
2025/07/28: Isaiah's talk on GC3 at ASPB was featured on the Plant Biology Daily Review Day 3!
2025/07/17: Our manuscript for the ggRibo visualization tool has been accepted by Genome Research! Congratulations, Larry and Isaiah!
2025/05/01: We’re excited to welcome our new postdoc, Shauna Yuhsuan Cheng! Shauna completed her PhD at Academia Sinica (Taiwan), where she studied nitrogen signaling. She will be working on the molecular mechanisms of uORF regulation. Welcome, Shauna!
2025/04/25: Isaiah won the 'Best Oral Presentation Award – 1st place' again at the 2025 Plant Science Graduate Student Research Symposium!
2025/03/03: Isaiah, Larry, and Polly are all giving research talks at the 2025 ASPB meeting in Milwaukee, WI!
2025/02/26: Congratulations to Qiaoyun on accepting the offer to begin her PhD program at the University of Texas at Austin this fall!
2024/08/29: Polly gave her tenure/promotion talk and received highly positive feedback! Thanks for everyone's help throughout the years!
2024/08/26: Our lab was awarded the NIH MIRA and NSF PGRP grants this summer! Read our new grant story here. Thanks Larry, Isaiah, and Qiaoyun for contributing to these proposals!
2024/08/15: Isaiah gave an amazing public talk and passed his comprehensive exam with flying colors! Congratulations on becoming a PhD candidate, Isaiah!!!
2024/07/12: Isaiah received additional funding from the NIH T32 PBHS training grant in recognition of his strong academic and research performance as well as his outstanding talk at the 2024 PBHS symposium!
2024/06/13: Isaiah, Larry and Polly ran our 2nd Ribo-seq Informatics Workshop as part of the ASPB virtual components! Check out the nice Github organized by Isaiah and Larry for slides and example codes!
2024/05/24: We welcomed our new undergraduate student, Maggie Chisonga! Maggie is a BMB major with an interest in mRNA translation!
2024/04/25: Isaiah won 'Best Oral Presentation Award – 1st place' at the Plant Science Graduate Student Research Symposium! Woo-hoo!
2024/04/23: Sarah has been awarded the Pathway to Research funding to carry out her undergrad thesis! Congratulations, Sarah!
2024/04/09: Isaiah has been awarded an MPS travel award to attend the Translational Control Meeting at CSHL!
2024/03/20: JBrowse tracks for our Ribo-seq, uORFs and sORFs in Arabidopsis reported in the Plant Cell ORFeome paper are now on TAIR! Many thanks to TAIR for hosting our data!
2024/03/11: Our review article on translation published in Plant Cell was included in the Review Compendium in Plant Biology in celebrating the ASPB centennial anniversary!
2024/03/04: We welcomed our new undergraduate student, Alexis Loparo. Alexis has been awarded research funding through the Pathway to Research program! Way to go, Alexis!
2023/11/14: We welcomed a new undergraduate student, Sarah Ganesan, to our lab. We are excited to introduce you to the fascinating world of gene expression and Arabidopsis!
2023/10/17: Our Arabidopsis ORFeome paper, combining improved super-resolution Ribo-seq and CiPS pipeline, has been accepted by The Plant Cell! Great work, Larry, Qiaoyun, Rita, and Phong, and thanks to our collaborators, Justin Walley lab, for contributing to this project.
2023/07/12: Our review article on translational control has been published in The Plant Cell! Congratulations to Larry and Joe!
2023/05/25: Ella presented a poster at the BMB retreat and won the prize for Best Hole in One (mini-golf)! Woo-hoo!
2023/04/28: Isaiah presented his work on Kozak sequences at Plant Science Graduate Student Research Symposium and won the best oral presentation 2nd place. Way to go, Isaiah!
2023/03/07: Ella received a travel grant from Midwest ASPB to present her work on sORFs on April 22-23 in Ames, Iowa!
2023/02/27: New Lab Member - We are thrilled to announce that Isaiah Kaufman has officially joined our lab as a graduate student! During his rotation, Isaiah began by working on a computation project. However, he quickly wrote a program to automate the work and asked if he could do some pipetting too. Ultimately, Isaiah successfully tackled both dry- and wet-lab projects, and he will continue working with a "Moist-lab" approach. Welcome, Isaiah!
2023/01/11: We are excited to have Cathy Mercado to rotate in our lab! Welcome, Cathy!
2022/12/20: We won 2 prizes for BMB Snowman decorating contest: "Best Creativity" & "Best Research Relevant"!
2022/10/26: We are excited to have Amber Crawford and Isaiah Kaufman to rotate in our lab! Welcome, Amber and Isaiah!
2022/10/04: New Publication - Our new Ribo-seq protocol has been published in Plant Methods! LINK
2022/07/11: New Lab Member - We are excited that Qiaoyun Ai has finally arrived at MSU after a long visa wait! Qiaoyun worked on fish evolution for her master thesis and she will be studying plant gene expression as a research assistant with us. Welcome, Qiaoyun!
2022/07/06: New Lab Member - We are excited that Chia-Yu (Joey) Jen has joined our lab as a visiting scholar. Joey studied Arabidopsis nitrate transporters for his masters thesis, and he is interested in translational regulation and uORF functions. Welcome, Joey!
2022/03/01: New Lab Member - We warmly welcome our new postdoc Ella Soeun Kim! Ella recently completed her PhD in Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology studying stress signaling in sweet potato, and she will be working on sORFs and ABA signaling. Welcome, Ella!
2021/12/07: New Publication - Our Ribo-seq visualization paper has been published in Plant Methods! Congratulations, Larry!!! Also, thanks for continuing making excellent progress during the pandemic!!! LINK
2021/02/25: New Grant - The lab received our first federal grant from NSF-MCB-Genetic-Mechanisms to study translational regulation & sORFs in ABA responses! Read more: MSU. BMB Newsletter - Key Grants.
2021/01/01: New Lab Member - We are excited that Phong Nguyen has officially joined our lab! Phong is a brave soul who moved from Taiwan to start his graduate school here during the pandemic. Before coming to MSU, Phong worked in Academia Sinica studying the role of lipids in stress response in Arabidopsis. Welcome, Phong!
2019/08/26: We are excited to have Morgen Clark (BMS program) and Febri Susanto (BMS/MPS program) to rotate in our lab! Welcome, Morgen and Febri!
2019/06/26: New Publication - Our tomato root translatome paper has been published in Plant Physiology! Big thanks to my postdoctoral advisor, Philip Benfey for generous support to get this work started! Also thanks to our collaborators, Justin Walley lab, for generating proteomics data to validate our Ribo-seq results! http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/early/2019/06/26/pp.19.00541