A great occasion for the lab!

Congratulations to new Drs Bo Xu and Manchun Zhao, and Masters degree recipient Yue Qu all graduating yesterday.

Manchun's PhD thesis was entitled "CO2 and ion transport through plant aquaporins" (supervised by Steve Tyerman) and Bo Xu's "Characterisation of a novel calcium sensor in Arabidopsis".

Yue Qu's Masters thesis was on the "Salt tolerance mechanisms in soybean"

Some photos from the day, more to follow.

Left to right - Prof Steve Tyerman, Dr Manchun Zhao, Dr Bo Xu, Dr Matt Gilliham, Mr Yue Qu

Matt and Weasley!

 

Best Masters Student in Plant Biotechnology

Yue Qu, tonight picked up the Best Master's in Plant Biotechnology student tonight at the School of Agriculture, Food and Wine Prize giving, having come top of his year group. Congratulations to Yue for his hard work over the last couple of years - especially his year long project in our lab looking into the salinity tolerance mechanisms of soybean.

The great news for us is that Yue has also secured a PhD scholarship with us to continue his research.

We were lucky to have two great students this year from the Masters course, with Sana Ullah who gained new insights into the control of hypocotyl elongation in Arabidopsis. Sana is now in New Zealand with his family and is looking to continue his very promising research career.

Yue follows in the footsteps of other students from this program to join the lab for their PhD. This includes Brad Hocking and Bo Xu - who also received this prize for 2008 and 2009 respectively - and the equally as capable Jiaen Qiu who is currently writing up her PhD thesis. 

Prize sponsors were the ACPFG

Yue Qu with Eileen Scott, Head of School