Fall 2023: Lab is all set!

Alejandro, Devi and Jessica gave talks at ESA Maryland

Alejandro, Devi, Manish and Insha (PhD Students); Jessica and Deepak (MS) gave talks at AR Crop Protection Conference.​

Alejandro, Devi, Manish and Insha (PhD Students); Jessica and Deepak (MS), Adrianna (Honors), and Dr. Gandham (Post Doc)

Fall 2022

Adegboyega Fajemisin defended thesis (UTRGV)

Alejandro Vasquez defended thesis (UTRGV)

Satinderpal Kaur defended thesis (UTRGV)

Alejandro Vasquez (Ph.D.) and Jessica Ayala (MS) (UTRGV alum) will join U.Arkansas as graduate students

Alejandro Vasquez received the prestigious DDF Fellowship from U.Arkansas

Devi Balakrishnan will join the lab as a Ph.D. student 

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Kariyat Lab is in Agriculture Building (321 Agri) at the 

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Summer 2022

Kariyat lab is moving to the Entomology and Plant Pathology Department at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

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Fall 2021

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Clarissa and Jessica won first prize for poster presentations at CoS Research Conference for grad and undergrad levels respectively

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Sakshi defended thesis with 3 published chapters! moving to UC Riverside Entomology for PhD

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Isabella starting Med school in 2022

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3 manuscripts were accepted in Fall

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Lab gave a popular science talk for C-STEM organized by Clarissa

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Jessica and Isabella completed UNL Summer internship and won prizes

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We accepted a new student Nischal from Nepal ...will start in Spring

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Summer 2021

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Juan Raya won first prize for poster presentation at ESA SW Branch meeting

 

Ishveen won second prize for her talk at the ESA SW meeting.

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Spring 2021

Zach defended his thesis

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Sukhman, Sakshi, and Ernesto won second prizes at CoS Symposium

 

Ishveen won third prize at UTRGV 3 Minutes thesis competition

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Kariyat received UTRGV College of Sciences Excellence

in research Award

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Kariyat receives the American Society for Plant Biologists

Excellence Educator Award

 

Sukhman defended thesis

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Ishveen defended thesis

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The lab was part of a short note in SW Entomologist

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Jesus's manuscript published in Scientific Reports

 

Sakshi's first chapter on trichomes accepted in Planta

 

Jesus got a job with Bayer Crop Science

 

Sukhman and Ishveen's review accepted and published (IJMS)

 

Kariyat floral traits MS published in AJB

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December 2020

Jesus defended and left.

 

May- September 2020

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COVID....

Jasleen, Lili, Mandeep and Cristinagraduated and left.

Published more manuscripts (4 more!)

Received CONTX grant for chemical ecology of Chagas disease

USDA-REEU 5 year grant started.

Ellisah and Bianca won 3rd for High Scholar Symposium

Isabella got early entry to Medical School.

Jesus got married

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APRIL  2020

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Mandeep's third paper on cascading effects of pericarp extract on pupal, adult and transgenerational offsprings of Manduca sexta published in Communicative and Intergrative Biology journal.

Congrats Mandeep!

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MARCH  2020

 

Jasleen received prestigious Preeminence graduate funding award for her doctoral research at University of Florida.

Congrats Jasleen!

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Jasleen's book chapter on role of trichomes in plant stress biology got accepted  for publication in Evolutionary ecology of plant-herbivore interactions.

Congrats Jasleen!

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FEBRUARY  2020

 

Jasleen's first paper on studying effects of AMF on growth and insect community  in Sorghum-sudangrass got published in Arthropod-Plant Interactions journal.

Congrats Jasleen!

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Mandeep's second paper on alternative methods of artificial buzz pollination got accepted in BMC Ecology journal.

Congrats Mandeep!

 

JANUARY  2020

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Mandeep's first paper on effects of polyphenol rich purple corn extract on herbivore growth and development got published in Insects journal.

Congrats Mandeep!

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OCTOBER  2019

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Jasleen Kaur awarded the Biology Graduate Student Research Merit Award (1500$)- NICE JASLEEN!

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SEPTEMBER  2019

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Alejandro's manuscript on Brown dog tick incidence (as lead author) published in Subtropical Subtropical Agriculture and Environments.

Congrats Alejandro!

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http://www.subplantsci.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/SAES-Goolsby-et-al.-2019-2-POST-1.pdf

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AUGUST 2019

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Juan Raya and Adreyanna Perez spent 10 weeks internship

at Louis lab at UNL through UNL-UTRGV collaboration as

a part of the NSF Career Award to Dr. Joe Louis. congrats!

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AUGUST 2019

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Our High Scholars Isabella and Priscilla (and their mentor Mandeep) wins the first prize in biology at the research symposium. Congrats to all.

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AUGUST 2019

Jasleen received the prestigious R & K Dugger fellowship.

The fellowship is for students who work on flora and fauna of Rio Grande Valley. Congrats Jasleen

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JULY 2019

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Juan Raya received UTRGV Engaged Scholar Award for Undergrad research!

Congrats Juan

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JUNE 2019

We got some funding for education and outreach!

https://blog.aspb.org/plant-bloome-2019-winners-announced/

Increasing minority student recruitment to plant sciences by enhancing high school curriculum through teacher training workshop

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JUNE 2019

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Incoming grad student Zachary Johnson received

Sustainability fellowship from EVP,

Congrats Zack and welcome to lab.

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Incoming grad student Sukhman Singh (co-advised with Dr Somavat received Presidential Graduate Research

Assistantship-PGRA. Congrats Sukhman, and welcome to the lab

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