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Misook Ha graduated in December 2009 with a Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology (Bioinformatics and Computational Biology track). She will work as a postdoctoral fellow in Computational Biology on elucidating the mechanisms for expression evolution in Arabidopsis

Circadian Rhythms and Hybrid Vigor – Hybrid plants, like corn, grow bigger and better than their parents because many of their genes for photosynthesis and starch metabolism are more active during the day, report researchers from The University of Texas at Austin in a new study published in the journal Nature

The annual Cotton Fiber Genomics project meeting was held in Austin. The project was funded by the National Science Foundation and focused on “Genetic and Functional Genomic Analysis of Early Events in Cotton Fiber Development”. The attendees of the meeting include:
PI: Chen Lab (David Pang, Yuki Guan, Misook Ha, Vikram Agarwal, UT-Austin)
Co-PI: Triplett Lab (He Jim Kim, Doug Hinchliffe, USDA-ARS/UNO)
Co-PI: David Stelly (Shivapriya Manchali, Texas A&M)
Co-PI: Peggy Thaxton (Mississippi State University)
Co-PI: Sing-Hoi Sze (Texas A&M)
Collaborator: Candace Haigler (North Carolina State University)
Collaborator: Brian Scheffler (USDA ARS MSA Genomics Laboratory, Stoneville, MS)
Collaborator: Pablo Rabinowicz (Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland)
Industry Representative: Don Jones (Cotton Incorporated)