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Very happy to see this come out in The Plant Phenome Journal. Way to go Ian, Bedrich, Mathieu, Bosheng, Jensina Davis Ryleigh Kirby (she/her) @NikeeShrestha2 & Michael Tross doi.org/10.1002/ppj2.7…

Big Ten Impact Research at UNL. Featuring, in order of appearance Nikee Shrestha Vladimir Torres, PhD James Schnable Harshita Kyle Linders Jonathan Turkus Waqar Ali & Jensina Davis all of Nebraska Agronomy and Horticulture and UNL PSI.

Join us for the next #UNLAgroHort seminar Oct. 24, 11am in Keim 150 or online ›› go.unl.edu/seminars. Vladimir Torres, PhD will discuss how he uses quantitative genetic techniques to predict genes associated with a phenotype in the Schnable Lab. #UNL Nebraska Research UNL PSI AHGSA UNL

Great side event at World Food Prize Foundation hosted by MSU researcher Addie Thompson. Session focused on Dept. of Agriculture National Plant Germplasm System, an important resource for plant breeding now and for the future.

Parallel GWAS/TWAS in a 738 line sorghum diversity panel identified an unannotated copy of microRNA mir172 that explains a significant amount of the differences in flowering time among temperate adapted sorghum lines. (1/2)

So often GWAS tells us "one of the ten genes in this region matters, take your best guess." Great to see how including TWAS can narrow do to single genes even in high linkage disequilbrium species like sorghum. New preprint lead by Harshita biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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James Schnable telling 3 stories in 15 minutes on using better algorithms and better data to: 1) Find the right traits, from Hongyu Jin 2) Find the genes controlling those traits, from Harshita 3) Find sequences controlling expression of those genes, from Michael Tross.

Can image analysis do a better job of quantifying severity of disease symptoms in plants? Can we use those measures to identify alleles of genes that provide disease resistance? We (collaborative Saet-Byul Kim /Schnable Lab) are going to find out. Cool project lead by Libia F. Gómez-Trejo!

#MGC2025

The 4 PhDs I mentor presenting at #MGC2025. Waqar Ali Genes controlling yield components Harshita Diverse transcriptional responses to low nitrogen. Nikee Shrestha Plants prefer exons be divisible by 3. Jensina Davis Linking gene expression and phenotypic plasticity.

During poster sessions I like to check in on presenters from our lab. I think Vladimir Torres, PhD has maxed out most people listening to him explain his poster on combined species transcriptome wide association studies.

#MGC2025

The biggest impact I'll ever have as a professor is the people I help to train. Felt wonderful to see so many current trainees and lab alumni together in one place this past weekend.

Great turnout at this year's ARPA-E Energy Innovation Showcase! Good to catch up with both old friends (thanks for stopping by Prof. Kim!) and a lot of engineers, programmers and investors what corn was doing at an energy conference.

“Hopefully the weirdest will even out, unless we all are weird in the same way.” — James Schnable (James Schnable), during his talk at #ASPBMidwest 2025 A thoughtful reminder from my PhD advisor: random variation is fine, but shared bias is the real challenge in science.

With the blessing of ALLAH Almighty! I am truly honored to see these kind words from my advisor, Professor James Schnable. Highly grateful to Professor Schnable, Dr. Seema Sahay, Dr. Rebecca Roston, and all lab members involved in this work.

Look mom, I’m a scientist now! Grateful and proud to announce that my first first-author research paper is officially published in The Plant Journal. lnkd.in/gCDG8yaf I’m really thankful to everyone who contributed to this project. It’s a surreal feeling seeing it publish.

Early Eid celebrations in our lab with the sweetest surprise! Thank you James Schnable for getting so many sweets and the thoughtful wishes in Hindi! I absolutely love Jalebi and its been a while since I had some. Maybe not the healthiest breakfast, but definitely the happiest!

Corn genetics labs thrive when graduate students invest their time in a nursery that will support experiments long after they've graduated and moved on to bigger and better things. Thank you Waqar Ali Jensina Davis Harshita Sofiya Arora!