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2024 news

10/24 We have been awarded a fourth year of funding through the NSF STC CROPPS! Congratulations CROPPS group! https://cropps.cornell.edu

10/24 Our collaborative study with the Stroock group at Cornell is submitted for review and available as a preprint. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.23.619842v1

9/24 Our review on Programmable Plants is submitted for review and available as a preprint. https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12337

7/24 Jesse is the new U. Arizona campus lead and Co-PI on the NSF STC CROPPS project. The Woodson lab will be leading efforts to program long-distance signaling in plants. https://cropps.cornell.edu

6/24 Snigdha’s research paper on PUB4 is submitted for review and is available as a preprint. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.13.593788v1

5/24 Matt has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Dr. Lemke! Matt will continue as a postdoc in the CROPPS project. https://cropps.cornell.edu

5/24 Matt and Alexa’s paper is now published in Plant Signaling and Behavior. Congratulations! https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15592324.2024.2347783

5/24 Rebeca has successfully completed the PhD comprehensive exams! Congratulations!

4/24 Dr. Nathaniel Ponvert has joined the lab as a postdoc and is part of the CROPPS team. Welcome Nathaniel! https://cropps.cornell.edu

1/24 Matt’s paper has been published in Frontiers in Plant Science. Congratulations! https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2023.1331346/full

1/24 Matt and Rebeca won best oral and poster presentations at the 33rd Western Photosynthesis Conference in Oracle, AZ. Congratulations!

1/24 The Woodson lab hosted the 33rd Western Photosynthesis Conference in Oracle, AZ. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/33rd-western-photosynthesis-conference-2024-tickets-716423079717?aff=oddtdtcreator

1/24 Our second core facility grant to use the Light Microscopy Alliance Zeiss confocal microscope has been awarded!

2023 news

12/23 Congratulations to Cristian Salazar De Leon on passing his PhD comprehensive exams! Great job!

10/23 Matt Lemke newest publication “A genetic screen for dominant chloroplast reactive oxygen species signaling mutants reveals life stage-specific singlet oxygen-signaling networks” is now on Biorxiv. Check out Publications tab for more info! Great job, Matt! https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.26.564295v1

10/23 We have been awarded a third year of funding through the NSF STC CROPPS! Congratulations CROPPS group! We are now looking for a new postdoc to join the project. https://cropps.cornell.edu

08/23 Welcome to the lab! 👋 Alexa Bustamante (Undergraduate Research Assistant) and John Dorlon (Rotation Student).

08/23 Matt Lemke and Cristian Salazar De Leon gave great talks at the Corteva Showcase at ASPB 2023! Way to go! 🥳

3/23 Rebeca Acevedo Barboza has joined the lab as a BMCB PhD student. Welcome!

1/23 David, Marta, and Robert’s paper was published in Plant Molecular Biology. Congratulations! https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11103-022-01319-z

2022 news

12/22 Congratulations to David Tano (now Dr. Tano) for successfully defending his Plant Sciences PhD thesis! 👏

10/22 We have been awarded a second year of funding through the NSF STC CROPPS! Congratulations CROPPS group! https://cropps.cornell.edu

10/23 Jesse’s review on chloroplast signaling has been published in Trends in Biochemical Sciences. https://www.cell.com/trends/biochemical-sciences/abstract/S0968-0004(22)00069-X

10/22 Jesse’s commentary on the future of plant biochemistry has been published in Trends in Biochemical Sciences. https://www.cell.com/trends/biochemical-sciences/abstract/S0968-0004(22)00185-2

7/22 Our collaborative grant proposal with the Biosphere 2 to study heat tolerance in cacao and coffee trees has has been awarded by the Arizona Institute for Resilient Environments and Societies (AIRES).

6/22 Matt’s review on chloroplast degradation has been published in Plant Signaling & Behavior. Congratulations! https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15592324.2022.2084955

5/22 Congratulations Marta Kozłowska for successfully defending her Plant Sciences Master’s thesis! 👏

2/22 Karen’s paper on the structures of degrading chloroplasts has been published in Plant and Cell Physiology. And we are on the cover! Congratulations! https://academic.oup.com/pcp/article/63/2/248/6438491

2/22 David’s commentary on chloropllast stress signaling has been published in Molecular Plant. Congratulations! https://www.cell.com/molecular-plant/fulltext/S1674-2052(22)00057-0

2021 news

9/21 Our U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant (DE-SC0019573) to study chloroplast degradation in response to stress has been awarded. Well done everyone!

9/21 Our collaborative project with Cornell University, NSF Science and Technology Center CROPPS (Center for Programmable Plant Systems) has been awarded. $25 million total over 5 years. $3.5 million will be awarded to the U. Arizona team (DBI-2019674).

7/21 Matt and Marta’s paper has been published in BMC Plant Biology. Congratulations! https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12870-021-03119-x

6/21 Jesse’s commentary on the epigenetic control of chloroplast function has been published in New Phytologist. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.17454

6/21 Cristian Salazar De Leon has joined the lab as a new MS student. Welcome!

5/21 Kamran’s paper has been published in New Phytologist. Congratulations! https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.17467

3/21 Our core facility grant to use the Light Microscopy Alliance Zeiss confocal microscope has been awarded!

2020 news

8/20 Kamran’s paper has been published in The Plant Journal. Congratulations! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tpj.14963

6/20 Our collaborative work with Dr. Izumi Masanori (Riken) has been published in Plant Physiology. https://academic.oup.com/plphys/article/183/4/1531/6118511

3/20 Matt Lemke and Marta Kozlowska have joined the lab as new PhD students. Welcome!

2019 news

12/19 Jesse’s review on chloroplast signaling has been published in Current Opinion in Plant Biology. We are also on the cover! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1369526618301766

2/19 We have two new lab members. Dr. Snigdha Rai is joining as a postdoc and microscopist Dr. Karen Fisher is joining as a Research Technologist. Welcome!

2018 news

5/18 We have the first lab members of the Woodson lab! David Tano is joining as a Plant Sciences PhD student and Kamran Alamdari is joining as a Research Technician. Welcome!