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Ashley Tessnow wins 2020 Outstanding Entomology Graduate Student Award!

7Feb

Congratulations to Ashley for winning the 2020 Entomology Department Outstanding Graduate Student Award. Ashely very much deserved to win this award in recognition of her excellence in research, teaching and service. Very proud!

Ashley Tessnow, right, receiving her award from Professor and Interim Department Head Dr. Pete Teel. Photo by Rob Williams

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Genomic & Data Resources page added

6Feb

In support of the growing genomics component of the Sword Lab research program, we’ve added a Genomic & Data Resources page to the website. The page provides links to publicly available datasets and analysis tools generated (or forthcoming) from several really cool population genomics and whole genome sequencing efforts we are involved in.

Congratulations, Dr. Raszick!

21Oct

Congratulations to Tyler who successfully defended his dissertation and will officially become Dr. Raszick in December.  Tyler’s work has already led to a postdoc project in collaboration with USDA-APHIS and USDA-ARS to refine boll weevil diagnostic assays based on his population genomics data.

See Carrie Deans in action a new Journal of Video Experiments article

18Jul

Quantifying Plant Soluble Protein and Digestible Carbohydrate Content, Using Corn (Zea mays) As an Exemplar

 

Lab undergrads win big at 2018 Ecological Integration Symposium!

9Apr

Congratulations to Christine Madamba, Zoey Kramer and Benjamin Thomas for winning presentation prizes at this year’s 2018 Ecological Integration Symposium. Christine and Zoey won 1st and 3rd place, respectively, in the undergrad talk category while Ben won 2nd place in the undergrad poster category. All the undergrads in the lab do an excellent job, and it is great to see Christine, Zoey and Ben get some much deserved recognition.

Additional credit goes out to our very own Ashley Tessnow who did a great job making the event happen as part of the organizing committee!

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Lab contact information

Gregory Sword

Professor & Charles R. Parencia Chair in Cotton Entomology

Department of Entomology,
Interdisciplinary Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB) Degree Program, and
Molecular & Environmental Plant Sciences Program
Texas A&M University
TAMU 2475
College Station, TX, 77843, USA

Directions to lab: (Google map)
Entomology Research Lab Rm. 112-120

Email: gasword[at]tamu.edu
Phone: (979) 862-1702
Fax: (979) 845-6305

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