Congratulations to Dr. Alexander Putman whose lab collaborated in publishing a paper in Biotechnology and Bioengineering: "Exploring the potential of engineering polygalacturonase-inhibiting protein as an ecological, friendly, and nontoxic pest control agent" This recent publication was featured on UC Riverside News. You can read the article here.

Congratulations to Dr. Juliet Morrison for co-authoring an Opinion piece published in the New York Times regarding COVID vaccine guidelines. You can read the article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/19/opinion/covid-vaccine-guidelines.html

Congratulations to PI Rong Hai, who has just received word that his National Institutes of Health R01 grant will be funded! The title of the grant is "Mechanistic Insights into flavivirus NS5-mediated STAT2" Suppression" and the total amount over 5 years is $1.94M

Congratulations to Dr. Juliet Morrison on being appointed to the Board of Trustees at Bard College. You can read the announcement from Bard College here: https://www.bard.edu/news/microbiologist-juliet-morrison-03-appointed-to-bard-college-board-of-trustees-2021-02-24

Professor Hailing Jin has just published an article in Nature Plants: "RNA-binding proteins contribute to small RNA loading in plant extracellular vesicles" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-021-00863-8. Professor Yinsheng Wang’s lab from Chemistry helped with proteomic analysis.

Congratulations to Professor Hailing Jin as she has published another high impact paper in less than a week! Professors Arthur Jia from BPSC and Xinping Cui from Statistics were co-authors. The citation is below. Chien-Yu Huang, Diana Sanchez Rangel, Xiaobo Qin, Christine Bui, Ruidong Li, Zhenyu Jia, Xinping Cui, Hailing Jin*. The chromatin remodeling protein...

Congratulations to Professor Hailing Jin, who has just published a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA! Dr. Caroline Roper from Microbiology and Plant Pathology and Dr. John Trumble from Entomology are co-authors. The study showed that a heat stable peptide from finger lime is able to prevent and treat HLB of...

A new paper has been published by the Katherine Borkovich lab in the Microbiology and Plant Pathology Department titled "Heterotrimeric G-Protein Signaling Is Required for Cellulose Degradation in Neurospora crassa". To learn more about the paper and study see the excerpt from the UCR News Article below or click here to read the published study...

Congratulations to the winners of the Microbiology and Plant Pathology Department Awards. The awards were presented on January 7th at the MPP Awards Ceremony and Graduate Student Invited Lectureship. Edmond C. Calavan Scholarship Winner- Antara Chakravarty, Plant Pathology Graduate Student Peter and Pamela Tsao Scholarship Winner- Lindsey Pedroncelli, Plant Pathology Graduate Student Microbiology Departmental Award...