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Visiting PhD student Yve de Silva Magedans has published more work from her time in the Phillips lab. Appearing as a chapter in the Methods in Molecular Biology book series, this work details her sterol and triterpene analysis from the soapbark tree, Quillaja brasiliensis. Congratulations, Yve, on your latest publication. The full citation: Magedans Y.V.S., …

Read more “Our book chapter “Soapbark Triterpenes: Quillaja brasiliensis Cell Culture Sapogenin and Free Sterol Analysis by GCMS” published in “Plant Secondary Metabolism Engineering” (Springer)”

Sara Yoshimi, a fourth year UTM Biology student who recently completed a successful undergraduate thesis project (BIO481) in the Phillips lab, has been honored with two awards recently. First, she received the Principal’s Award of Excellence in Student Leadership on April 18 of this year. This past week, she was recognized with a best speaker …

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All star undergraduate student Anya Franks, who recently completed a research opportunity project in the Phillips lab, will continue her research on geranium essential oil biosynthesis during the summer of 2022. To recognize her significant academic accomplishments, she has just been awarded a University of Toronto Excellence Award. This coveted award entails a cash prize …

Read more “Undergraduate Anya Franks wins a University of Toronto Excellence Award (UTEA) to conduct summer research in the Phillips lab”

Update: The online version of this article is available here. Our manuscript entitled “An Arabidopsis GCMS chemical ionization technique to quantify adaptive responses in central metabolism”, led by Matthew E. Bergman, has been accepted for publication in Plant Physiology as a Research Article in the “Breakthrough Technologies, Tools and Resources” categories. This paper represents the …

Read more “Matthew Bergman’s paper on ammonia chemical ionization GCMS accepted at Plant Physiology”

Graduate student Sonia E. Evan’s first paper from her thesis work was published today in Plant Methods. This paper describes methodology for high resolution whole plant 13CO2 labeling techniques, and it formalizes several related techniques being used around the lab over the past several years. Congratulations, Sonia!