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Dr. Mark Hall
Donation takes Summer Science Program to the next level

If you’re on Purdue’s campus in the summer, you may notice a group of students slipping out of the biochemistry labs late at night, looking exhausted yet exhilarated. These are the participants in the Summer Science Program (SSP), a...

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The Astronaut Scholarship

Shelby Sliger, a senior biochemistry major in Purdue’s College of Agriculture and a member of the John Martinson Honors College, discovered a...

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Gene expression research brings hope to the delay and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease

Dementia, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases slowly curtail the full, exciting lives of those inflicted and bring a premature grief...

Elysia Uggen examines a plant sample.

Fields of Discovery: Proteins, PICKLES and pencils  

This summer, Elysia Uggen researches PICKLE mutations in the arabidopsis plant with department head of biochemistry Joe Ogas.

Sarah Stanhope

Sarah Stanhope - Graduate Ag Research Spotlight

Sarah Stanhope likes investigating things: “I always asked a lot of questions,” she says. Inspired and supported by a...

Bob Auber presents from a screen titled "A Day in the Life." In the foreground, there are two graduate students watching.

‘Plants to people:’ Bob Auber’s path from the Center for Plant Biology to oncology

On Friday March 22, Bob Auber returned to Room 116 in Whistler Hall to stand behind a podium in front of a PowerPoint and keep an audience engaged...

Shannon Stirling working with petunias

Decoding the plant world’s complex biochemical communication networks

A Purdue University-led research team has begun translating the complex molecular language of petunias. Their grammar and vocabulary are well...