Postdoctoral Scholar Feature

Postdoctoral Scholar Feature

Jingxian An

Jingxian An - Postdoctoral Scholar Feature — 20 May 2026

Jingxian An has always been interested in the science of what people eat and drink, whether pharmaceuticals, alcohol or food. As an undergraduate...

Caroline Rose Alukkal

Caroline Rose Alukkal - Postdoctoral Scholar Feature — 16 March 2026

At an age when most kids are still learning long division, Caroline Rose Alukkal was already thinking about wastewater management. Her village in...

Terry Torres Cruz

Terry Torres Cruz - Postdoctoral Scholar Feature — 24 November 2025

Terry Torres Cruz’s path to mycology — the study of fungi — has been guided by lots of curiosity and a little bit of fate....

Zeus Mateos-Fierro

Zeus Mateos-Fierro - Postdoctoral Scholar Feature — 20 October 2025

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 — 24 September 2025

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

FURTHER RESEARCH STORIES

Hinayah Rojas and members of her lab
Your next burger might be thanks to a dairy cow

Even if you don’t know much about beef or dairy production, if you imagine a ranch or a...

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To-chia poses in a rice paddy field wearing big rubber boots and a bucket hat
Using process-based modeling and high-throughput phenotyping data to predict how plants will grow

To-Chia Ting, a postdoctoral scholar in agronomy, studies new approaches to predict plant...

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close up of cow faces next to each other. One has perky ears and seems neutral, the other has wide eyes and a silly face pressed against a metal fence
What are animals feeling? Purdue animal scientists are learning how to read their emotions.

Heather Neave researches animal welfare, a field focused on understanding what practices can...

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Kelsey Budreau
Behind the Research: Kelsey Budreau

The Department of Food Science’s Pilot Plant is a 9,500-square-foot facility with millions...

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two carpenter bees sitting on a coneflower with a blurred green background
Pollen & pollination

The eighth wonder of the world might be a hundred-million-year-old process: pollination. When...

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A swarm of both white-eyed bees and normal bees, those with black eyes, laying on a honey comb frame.
Beekeepers help Purdue Bee Lab make mutation discoveries

When most people picture a bee, they imagine a small black insect with a fuzzy body, yellow...

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