Latest News

  • [Jul 2025] Yiting joined the lab as a postdoc scholar.

  • [Jun 2025] The first manuscript from the lab led by Edward Cedrick Fernandez is out, with the focus of leaf gradient coordination with temperature response in barley Preprint.

  • [Apr 2025] Fahad starts to work in our lab and will be our new PhD student in 2025 Fall!

  • [Apr 2025] Edward Cedrick Fernandez won the Glenn S. Smith International Graduate Fellowship. Congrats!

  • [Feb 2025] Edward Cedrick Fernandez was selected as one of finalists for 2025 3MT at NDSU. Here is his story.

  • [Jan 2025] Lu joined the lab as the first postdoc researcher.

  • [Jan 2025] Edward Cedrick Fernandez won the MaGNeT travel award to attend his first Maize Genetics Conference at St Louis, MO!

  • [Dec 2024] Wei Dai joined the lab as the second PhD student.

  • [May 2024] Edward Cedrick Fernandez joined the lab as the very first PhD student.

  • [Apr 2024] Gaoya Tu joined the lab as the very first person and helped on initializing multiple projects.

  • [August 2023] Zhikai Liang started his new position as an Assistant Professor at North Dakota State University.

For old news, please check this archived news page.

Vacancies

  • There are currently no vacancies.

Team

Lab Alumni

  • Lu Luo, Postdoc Research Fellow, University of Houston
  • Gaoya Tu, Master student at NDSU (Statistics)
  • Zachary Springer, Undergraduate student at NDSU (ABEN)
  • Rick Peng, Undergraduate student at University of Michigan (Computer Science)