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UGA PBIO has contributed two new "guest" editors (1 year first term) to the prestigious journal, Plant Cell: Drs. Jim Leebens-Mack and Xiaoyu Zhang

Congratulations Caroline Coatney and Alex Matte-Santos, Plant Biology's newest masters' degree graduates.  Congratulations to Nate Ellis and Li Wang, Plant Biology's newest Ph.D. graduates.

Hiral Patel, shown here taking measurements in the greenhouse, did her UGA honors thesis under the mentorship of graduate student Chase Mason in the Department of Plant Biology.  Hiral has been accepted into the Medical College of Georgia for fall 2015. Chase, now Dr.

Congrats to Li Wang for successfully defending her dissertation under the direction of Dr. Xiaoyu Zhang in the Department of Plant Biology: " Dynamic Histone Replacement and Pol II Redistribution during Heat-induced Transcriptional Activation”

Russell Malmberg is a co-PI on a grant just awarded from NIH/NIGMS Mathematical Biology to develop bioinformatic tools to predict the 3D structure of RNAs from primary sequences.  Liming Cai of Computer Science is the lead P.I., and Cory Momany of Pharmacy is also a co-PI on the same grant…