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!

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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 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.

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

 

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!