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Recent Graduate Student Accomplishments
- Cathy Rehymeyer (Mark Farman)
was awarded one of two "best oral presentation" awards, including
a $100.00 prize, at the annual meeting of the Mycological
Society of America in Hilo, Hawaii, in August. There were
27 students competing for the awards. The title of
her presentation was "Structure and dynamics of Magnaporthe
oryzae telomeres."
- Congratulations to Chunquan Zhang (Dr. Ghabrial) who successfully
defended his Ph.D. dissertation,
titled "Genetic Diversity
of Bean
Pod Mottle Virus (BPMV) and Development of BPMV as a Vector for Gene
Expression in Soybean" in July. Zhang has accepted a job as a
research scientist with Drs. Witham and Hill at Iowa State
University, working on soyubean-virus interactions with an emphasis
on resistance genes and soybean genomics.
- Nicky Mundell (advisors C. Schardl and J. Hartman) successfully
defended her M.S. thesis, titled "Phylogenetic Analysis of
Kentucky Strains of Xylella fastidiosa", in April,
2005. Nicky will be starting work soon at the University
of Kentucky Medical School as a research technician.
- Chi-Ping Cheng (advisor P. Nagy) successfully
defended her Ph.D. dissertation,
titled "Viral RNA Elements and Host Genes Affecting
RNA Recombination in Tombusviruses" in April, 2005. Chi-Ping
has returned to her home institution in Taiwan
to take up a postdoctoral position there.
- Claire Venard (advisor L. Vaillancourt) has
been awarded a highly competitive
University of Kentucky Dissertation Year Fellowship for the
2005-2006 academic year.
- Claire Venard and Cathy Rehmeyer (advisor
M. Farman) have both won travel awards,
Claire from the American Phytopathological Society to attend
the APS meeting in Austin, Texas, and Cathy from the Mycological
Society of America to go to the MSA meeting in Hawaii.
- Jennifer Flowers (advisors L.
Vaillancourt and J. Hartman) has been invited to present
her research at the International Arboriculture
Society meeting in Nashville in August. Only three graduate
students in the entire world were invited
to participate!
- Congratulations to Nicky and Rich Mundell
on the birth of their daughter, Meghan,
on May 11, 2005.
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