Postdoctoral Scholar Feature

Postdoctoral Scholar Feature

Zeus Mateos-Fierro

Zeus Mateos-Fierro - Postdoctoral Scholar Feature

When Zeus Mateos-Fierro arrived in Indiana, he’d never seen a watermelon field in his life. Yet watermelons – specifically, the pests...

Jiaxin Long

Jiaxin Long - Postdoctoral Scholar Feature

Many of us remember our high school lessons in genetics – drawing Punnett squares, examining our earlobes (attached? Detached?) or trying to...

FURTHER RESEARCH STORIES

Mike Mickelbart and John Couture look at a corn leaf in a greenhouse
Purdue leads international effort to decode drought-resistant corn

A dry season can be devastating to harvests, putting both farmers' livelihoods and...

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Verma with spectroscopy
Light-based tool continuously monitors vaccine quality during production

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the need to rapidly develop, produce and...

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Akanksha Singh, a postdoctoral scientist in the laboratory of Bryan Young, professor of botany and plant pathology, catalogs plants for phenotyping at the Ag Alumni Seed Phenotyping Facility.
Purdue-DARPA project explores plants as sentinels for chemical activity

Purdue University’s College of Agriculture has joined an effort to mobilize plants as...

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Emily DeaKyne
Behind the Research: Emily DeaKyne

Many people are involved in the remarkable range of programs, services and facilities that...

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Graduate students standing in front of a tractor while working on a laptop.
Purdue students launch inaugural SyDAg and Hackathon Weekend

A dynamic team of student leaders from diverse agricultural fields, under the leadership of the...

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Marguerite Bolt
Behind the Research: Marguerite Bolt

Many people are involved in the remarkable range of programs, services and facilities that...

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