August 2020

New Graduate Student

Jonathan Puglisi is joining Achour’s team as a Graduate Student. He is a Master’s student joining the Amiri lab in the Fall 2020 semester. After studying biology at the Pennsylvania State University for his undergraduate degree.  He wanted to learn more about how plants interact with the environment. In the Amiri lab he will be […]

Welcome Prashant Swamy

Welcome to Prashant Swamy who is joining Achour’s lab as a Research Associate. Prashant is a plant biologist with an experience in a variety of disciplines such as plant pathology, next-gen technologies, plant physiology and molecular breeding. He worked in different areas of applied plant pathology in the Pacific Northwest agriculture settings with an emphasis […]

New TFREC COVID-19 Resources Page

We just added a new page to the Admin website with the COVID-19 resources that Chad shared with us at the All Staff Meeting on 8/14/2020. The page link can be found on the home page and at the top of the navigation menu to the left. Here’s another short cut: http://tfrec.cahnrs.wsu.edu/admin/covid-19-resources/. ↑ Back to […]

Welcome Huiting Zhang

Dr. Huiting Zhang was trained as a molecular biologist during her undergrad research in Peking University in Beijing, China. She joined the lab of Dr. Claude dePamphilis at the Pennsylvania State University for her Ph.D. study. Her research focused on two major projects. One used a plant transformation and plant co-culture system to characterize “parasitism genes” identified by collaborators in […]