NEWS:

April 2013 - "Tertiary model of a plant cellulose synthase" published in PNAS: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/04/16/1301027110.abstract

Feb 2013: The lab is sequencing the genome(s) of 12 bacterial endophytes from switchgrass (funded by the DOE Joint Genome Institute)

Chad Brabham (PhD student) published a mini review titled "Chemical genetics to examine cellulose biosynthesis"

Year of the dragon- Ye, Yumei and Seth all add new babies to the family (late 2012, early 2013)

Darby Harris (former-PhD student) takes faculty position at Western North Carolina University Biology Department.

Venugopal Mendu (former post-doc) is heading to the faculty at Texas Tech University and will continue his work on cellulose biosynthesis. Congratulations, Venu!