Summer 2019
Our review article "Circadian Network Interactions with Jasmonate Signaling and Defense" is featured on the cover of the August issue of the journal Plants
Spring 2019
Congratulations to Anneke on her Goldwater Scholarship.
Elena, Emily ,and Anneke present their research at the Spring Research Symposium.
Fall 2018
Bryan is on sabbatical and is working in Josh Gendon's lab this semester. He is doing IP/MS with a novel decoy strategy to find F-box protein interactors and carrying out ubiquitylation assays for putative F-box protein targets.
Emily, Elena, and Anneke present their summer research at the annual Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium at Puget Sound.
Summer 2018
Elena, Emily, and Anneke submit proposals (Spring) and are awarded UEC summer research fellowships.
Spring 2018
May - Ryan gives a talk entitled "Arabidopsis thaliana F-box Proteins Interact with 14-3-3 Proteins in the Ubiquitin 26S Proteasome System" at the 21st Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Washington Seattle campus.
May - Congratulations to Lily for winning the University of Puget Sound President's Award for Academic Excellence and the Gordon D. Alcorn Award in Biology. Also, congratulations to Elena for winning the Writing Excellence Award in Natural Science and Mathematics and to Anneke for winning an Outstanding First-Year Student Award. Congratulations to Tina, Ryan, and Megan for graduating in the Honors Program.
May - Congratulations to all graduating seniors Megan Tegman, Ryan Apathy, Tina Chapman, and Lily O'Connor
April/May - Tina, Megan, and Ryan defend their their theses for the Honors Program.
April - Tina, Ryan, Megan, Elena, and Anneke present their research at the Spring Phi Sigma Research Symposium.
March - Bryan gives a talk entitled "It's not easy being green: Arabidopsis F-box gene responses to abiotic stresses" at the University of Victoria, BC.
Fall 2017
December - Elements articles
November - Ryan, Tina, and Lily all present their Summer/Fall research at the annual Murdock College Science Program Undergraduate Research Conference in Spokane, WA. Megan also presented the work she did for her summer REU at Montana State University.
September - Tina presents her work at the 2017 PacNow Quantitative Biology Symposium at Reed College in Portland, OR.
September - Lily, Megan, Tina, and Ryan present their summer research at the annual Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium at Puget Sound.
The Thines Lab is awarded a three year grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust to study the interaction between F-box and 14-3-3 proteins in plant stress responses (see Research page).
Summer 2017
July - Meghan and Bryan, ASPB - poster titles, workshop
Elena - REU, University of Denver
Ryan, Tina, and Lily submit proposals (Spring) and are awarded UEC summer research fellowships.
Spring 2017
Congratulations to Lauren, Kristen, and Karen for their paper being accepted to BMC Genomics!
May - Congratulations to graduating senior Meghan Bacher! Meghan Bacher - Beverly Pierson Research Engagement Award, Outstanding Phi Sigma symposium presentation honorable mention, university academic honors (summa cum laude)
March - Meghan, Elena, Drew (Madlung Lab), and Bryan attend the Future of Genomic Medicine conference in La Jolla, CA
Fall 2016
December - Congratulations to graduating senior Joe Chen. Joe graduates with Honors in Biology.
November - Murdock
Summer 2016
Joe submitted a proposal (Spring) and is awarded a UEC summer research fellowship.
The lab welcomes Aleesa Bryant from Heritage University for the summer!
Spring 2016
Congratulations to Meghan Bacher (Puget Sound) and Karen Chan (Scripps College) on their Goldwater Scholarships.
Congratulations to Meghan Bacher for being selected to receive an ASPB summer research fellowship. Meghan will be using bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) to look at F-box protein interactions at Puget Sound this summer.
Our proposal for transcriptome analysis of the fbs1-1 mutant in salt stress was selected for the NSF/CSHL workshop on “Bringing RNA-Seq to Undergraduate Education.” The dataset generated will be used by undergraduate researchers in the lab, and in Genetics and Molecular Biology classes at Puget Sound.
Summer 2015
Liya is working in Dr. Martin Jensen’s lab at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato, CA. Aileen is working in Dr. Jose Dinneny’s plant biology lab at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, CA.
Spring 2015
May – Congratulations to 2015 graduates: Kristen, Kyle, Alex, and Carin!
April – Kristen, Kyle, Aileen, Karen, Liya, and Carin presented their work at the annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference in San Diego, CA.
January – Lizzie presents her work as part of a poster entitled “Is hybridization between an endemic and a widespread native plant cause for conservation concern? Soft-leaved paintbrush (Castilleja mollis) on Santa Rosa Island?” at the 2015 California Native Plant Society meeting in San Jose, CA.
January - Kyle presents his work on “The Ubiquitin 26S Proteasome and Abscisic Acid Signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana” at the annual Plant and Animal Genome conference in San Diego, CA.
Fall 2014
November – Congratulations to Julie, Austin, and Erica on their paper being accepted in Plant Signaling and Behavior.
October – Congratulations to Lizzie on her Scripps Environmental Research award.
Summer 2014
Anna and Kristen are awarded REU summer internships. Anna is working in Dr. Adrienne Roeder’s lab at Cornell University, and Kristen is working in Dr. Jie Song’s lab at the University of Massachussetts Medical School.
Spring 2014
May – Congratulations to 2014 graduates: Hannah, Julie, Paloma, and Lauren!
May – Lauren’s senior thesis was awarded “Best Thesis in Biology” at Claremont McKenna College. The title of her thesis is “Characterization of F-Box Gene At1g61340 in Abiotic Stress Responses of Arabidopsis thaliana.”
April – Julie and Lauren presented their work at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in San Diego, CA.
April – Hannah, Julie, Lauren, Austin, and Anna presented their work at the West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference in Azusa, CA.
*Julie and Austin’s poster won a “Top Poster” award.
April – Congratulations to Paloma on her Fulbright fellowship!
Our review article "Circadian Network Interactions with Jasmonate Signaling and Defense" is featured on the cover of the August issue of the journal Plants
Spring 2019
Congratulations to Anneke on her Goldwater Scholarship.
Elena, Emily ,and Anneke present their research at the Spring Research Symposium.
Fall 2018
Bryan is on sabbatical and is working in Josh Gendon's lab this semester. He is doing IP/MS with a novel decoy strategy to find F-box protein interactors and carrying out ubiquitylation assays for putative F-box protein targets.
Emily, Elena, and Anneke present their summer research at the annual Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium at Puget Sound.
Summer 2018
Elena, Emily, and Anneke submit proposals (Spring) and are awarded UEC summer research fellowships.
Spring 2018
May - Ryan gives a talk entitled "Arabidopsis thaliana F-box Proteins Interact with 14-3-3 Proteins in the Ubiquitin 26S Proteasome System" at the 21st Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Washington Seattle campus.
May - Congratulations to Lily for winning the University of Puget Sound President's Award for Academic Excellence and the Gordon D. Alcorn Award in Biology. Also, congratulations to Elena for winning the Writing Excellence Award in Natural Science and Mathematics and to Anneke for winning an Outstanding First-Year Student Award. Congratulations to Tina, Ryan, and Megan for graduating in the Honors Program.
May - Congratulations to all graduating seniors Megan Tegman, Ryan Apathy, Tina Chapman, and Lily O'Connor
April/May - Tina, Megan, and Ryan defend their their theses for the Honors Program.
April - Tina, Ryan, Megan, Elena, and Anneke present their research at the Spring Phi Sigma Research Symposium.
March - Bryan gives a talk entitled "It's not easy being green: Arabidopsis F-box gene responses to abiotic stresses" at the University of Victoria, BC.
Fall 2017
December - Elements articles
November - Ryan, Tina, and Lily all present their Summer/Fall research at the annual Murdock College Science Program Undergraduate Research Conference in Spokane, WA. Megan also presented the work she did for her summer REU at Montana State University.
September - Tina presents her work at the 2017 PacNow Quantitative Biology Symposium at Reed College in Portland, OR.
September - Lily, Megan, Tina, and Ryan present their summer research at the annual Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium at Puget Sound.
The Thines Lab is awarded a three year grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust to study the interaction between F-box and 14-3-3 proteins in plant stress responses (see Research page).
Summer 2017
July - Meghan and Bryan, ASPB - poster titles, workshop
Elena - REU, University of Denver
Ryan, Tina, and Lily submit proposals (Spring) and are awarded UEC summer research fellowships.
Spring 2017
Congratulations to Lauren, Kristen, and Karen for their paper being accepted to BMC Genomics!
May - Congratulations to graduating senior Meghan Bacher! Meghan Bacher - Beverly Pierson Research Engagement Award, Outstanding Phi Sigma symposium presentation honorable mention, university academic honors (summa cum laude)
March - Meghan, Elena, Drew (Madlung Lab), and Bryan attend the Future of Genomic Medicine conference in La Jolla, CA
Fall 2016
December - Congratulations to graduating senior Joe Chen. Joe graduates with Honors in Biology.
November - Murdock
Summer 2016
Joe submitted a proposal (Spring) and is awarded a UEC summer research fellowship.
The lab welcomes Aleesa Bryant from Heritage University for the summer!
Spring 2016
Congratulations to Meghan Bacher (Puget Sound) and Karen Chan (Scripps College) on their Goldwater Scholarships.
Congratulations to Meghan Bacher for being selected to receive an ASPB summer research fellowship. Meghan will be using bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) to look at F-box protein interactions at Puget Sound this summer.
Our proposal for transcriptome analysis of the fbs1-1 mutant in salt stress was selected for the NSF/CSHL workshop on “Bringing RNA-Seq to Undergraduate Education.” The dataset generated will be used by undergraduate researchers in the lab, and in Genetics and Molecular Biology classes at Puget Sound.
Summer 2015
Liya is working in Dr. Martin Jensen’s lab at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato, CA. Aileen is working in Dr. Jose Dinneny’s plant biology lab at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, CA.
Spring 2015
May – Congratulations to 2015 graduates: Kristen, Kyle, Alex, and Carin!
April – Kristen, Kyle, Aileen, Karen, Liya, and Carin presented their work at the annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference in San Diego, CA.
January – Lizzie presents her work as part of a poster entitled “Is hybridization between an endemic and a widespread native plant cause for conservation concern? Soft-leaved paintbrush (Castilleja mollis) on Santa Rosa Island?” at the 2015 California Native Plant Society meeting in San Jose, CA.
January - Kyle presents his work on “The Ubiquitin 26S Proteasome and Abscisic Acid Signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana” at the annual Plant and Animal Genome conference in San Diego, CA.
Fall 2014
November – Congratulations to Julie, Austin, and Erica on their paper being accepted in Plant Signaling and Behavior.
October – Congratulations to Lizzie on her Scripps Environmental Research award.
Summer 2014
Anna and Kristen are awarded REU summer internships. Anna is working in Dr. Adrienne Roeder’s lab at Cornell University, and Kristen is working in Dr. Jie Song’s lab at the University of Massachussetts Medical School.
Spring 2014
May – Congratulations to 2014 graduates: Hannah, Julie, Paloma, and Lauren!
May – Lauren’s senior thesis was awarded “Best Thesis in Biology” at Claremont McKenna College. The title of her thesis is “Characterization of F-Box Gene At1g61340 in Abiotic Stress Responses of Arabidopsis thaliana.”
April – Julie and Lauren presented their work at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in San Diego, CA.
April – Hannah, Julie, Lauren, Austin, and Anna presented their work at the West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference in Azusa, CA.
*Julie and Austin’s poster won a “Top Poster” award.
April – Congratulations to Paloma on her Fulbright fellowship!