February 28 – March 3, 2024
Gage Lab Attends Maize Genetics Conference in Raleigh, NC
The Gage Lab attended the Maize Genetics Meeting hosted this year on our home turf in Raleigh, NC. The conference started off with lab member either attending the Corn Breeding Research Meeting or the Genetics of Maize-Microbe Interactions workshop before coming together as the large group for the Maize Genetics Meeting. The conference was filled with insightful talks on topics such as: Fostering Diversity in the Maize Community, The Genes that Make Maize, The Nitrogen Conundrum, and Maize Evolution. Lab members Ty, Stef, Jordan, and Nate presented posters at the poster session and all had plenty of time for networking with academia and industry researchers. Recordings from the meeting will be posted here if you would like to view any of the talks.
January 12, 2024
Lab member, Ty Thomas, attends National Corn Growers Association Growers Committee Meeting in St. Louis, MO
January 8, 2024
Gage Lab gains three new members!
The Gage lab has gained three new members, two PhD students and one Post-doc! Laide Rasaki is a Genetics and Genomics scholar who rotated though our lab fall 2023 and then decided to choose our lab as his co-advisor. Laide is also advised by Dr. Amanda Hulse-Kemp and will be developing and integrating of genetic tools and computational methods into plant breeding systems for accelerated crop improvement. Jaswinder Kaur joined the lab as a PhD student and is co-advised by Dr. Susana Milla-Lewis. Jawinder will study turfgrass breeding and genetics. Last but not least, Nate Korth joined the lab as a postdoctoral scholar to study Genotype x Environment x Rhizobial Microbiome interactions in maize. We are very excited for our lab to grow with such great scientists! Learn more about our new members on our Current Lab Members page.
October 19, 2023
Lab members attend and give flash talks at the Plant Breeding Consortium Science-Social
The Gage Lab attended the Plant Breeding Consortium Science-Social at the J.C Raulston Arboretum where Ty and Stef gave flash talks on “Utilizing RNA Sequencing to further Understand Genotype by Environment Interactions” and “Phenotypic Response and Investigation of Tissue-Specific Translation Regulation by uORFs in Maize” respectively. At the science-social there were also invited speakers from Syngenta, Camcore, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to tell us more about their organizations and speak on how breeding advancement benefit the work they are doing. Check out more about the NCSU Plant Breeding Consortium here!
October 18, 2023
Dr. Joe Gage gives talk at Fall 2023 Agricultural Microbiomes Symposium
Our very own Dr. Joe Gage gave a talk at the Fall 2023 Agricultural Microbiome Symposium on “Breeding for Beneficial Microbiomes”. During his talk Dr. Gage showed that the heritability of plants microbiomes are low, but nonzero meaning that advancements through selection may be possible. Dr. Gage also brought up the questions whether microbiomes can be key players in useful traits and if they were to be a target should we breed the plants, microbes, or both? Learn more about the Fall 2023 Agricultural Microbiome Symposium here.
August 25, 2023
Lab members attend annual GGA retreat
Lab members attended the second annual Genetic and Genomics Academy retreat where they listened to talks from researchers at the university, participated in a breakout session to shape the goals of the GGA for the coming year, and presented research during the poster session. Learn more about the annual GGA retreat here.
August 21, 2023
Jordan Cummings joined the lab as a PhD student
Jordan joined the lab Fall semester 2023 to start her PhD co advised by Dr. Joe Gage and Dr. Jim Holland. Her project will work to characterize the maize heirloom varieties of the United States. Jordan was selected to be a Genetics and Genomics Scholar, read more about the Genetics and Genomics Academy here. Read more about Jordan’s background in our Current Lab Members page.
August 1, 2023
Ty selected as National Corn Growers Association Research Ambassador
“The purpose of the NCGA Research Ambassador Program is to build a network of future leaders in the agriculture sector.” NCGA helps fund the Genome to Fields Initiative and are interested in the research Ty is doing with G2F. They are excited to see results and will have Ty share his research with a large network of agricultural leaders in the U.S. It will be a great experience to see how agricultural policy is made and learn the needs of growers throughout the nation. Read more about the NCGA Research Ambassadors program here.
August 1, 2023
Gage lab secures $1.9M NIH grant to study gene-environment interactions
Read the CALS News story here.