Sonia Evans defends her PhD
Sonia E. Evans successfully defended her thesis, completing her PhD program in the Department of Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Toronto on Nov 15, 2024. Congratulations, Sonia!
Our photo makes the cover of Nature Plants
Our photo was featured on the cover of the October issue of Nature Plants in support of our paper published there this month.
Sonia Evans’s paper published in Nature Plants
Rubisco supplies pyruvate for the2-C-methyl-D-erythritol-4-phosphate pathway Sonia E. Evans, Yuan Xu, Matthew E. Bergman, Scott A. Ford, Yingxia Liu, Thomas D. Sharkey, Michael A. Phillips https://rdcu.be/dVZIY 10.1038/s41477-024-01791-z
Scott Ford’s paper on the Salvia divinorum genome published in BMC Plant Biology
https://rdcu.be/dVKrP 10.1186/s12870-024-05633-0 A chromosome level reference genome of Diviner’s sage (Salvia divinorum) provides insight into salvinorin A biosynthesis Scott A. Ford, Rob W. Ness, Moonhyuk Kwon, Dae-Kyun Ro, Michael A. Phillips
Sonia Evans wins the 2024 Roberta Bondar award
Awarded by the Department of Biology for graduate student research excellence by the Department of Biology on September 30, 2024
PhD student Sonia E. Evans publishes in Nature Communications
“Plastid ancestors lacked a complete Entner-Doudoroff pathway, limiting plants to glycolysis and the pentose phosphate pathway”
Mike gives invited talk at the 15th International TerpNet Meeting
Aug 2, 2023 in Davis, California “Natural and synthetic sources of substrate for the MEP pathway”
PhD student Matthew Bergman defends thesis
Invited talk to the Department of Chemistry and Physical Sciences
Mike gives an invited research seminar to the Department of Chemistry and Physical Sciences on 18 January 2023 at the University of Toronto – Mississauga
Master’s student Scott Ford publishes first paper as lead author
This week, new lab member Scott Ford published a first authored paper in the Journal of Phycology from his senior thesis project in the lab of Prof. Rob Ness. Congratulations, Scott. S Ford, R Craig, R Ness “A novel method for identifying Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Chlorophyta) and closely related species from nature” Journal of Phycology