Nov 18, 2023
Naveen Duhan Successfully Defends His PhD Dissertation
Naveen Duhan successfully defended his PhD dissertation on November 18th, 2023. His dissertation was titled "Computational Prediction of Host-Pathogen Protein-Protein Interactions".
He was advised by Dr. Rakesh Kaundal Congratulations Naveen!
Dec 28, 2022
Naveen Duhan Awarded Outstanding Doctoral Student Researcher
With 11 publications and being the nominee from the PSC department as an outstanding student, Naveen has been awarded
2022-23 Outstanding Doctoral Student Researcher for the College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences (CAAS). This is a very competitive
reward and he competed among all the applicants from the other departments in CAAS.
Aug 8, 2022
Mitchell Millerberg Completes Summer Internship
As Mitchell finishes his summer internship with us in the Animal Dairy & Veterinary Sciences
department, we celebrate with pizza and soda pop. We had a short interview with him to ask him how his
experience in the lab was.
Aug 1, 2022
Fulbright Scholar Joins the Lab: Simardeep Kaur
Miss Simardeep Kaur is a Nehru Doctoral Fulbright fellow at KAABiL Laboratory,
USU. Her doctoral thesis focuses on deciphering the microRNA related modulations in contrasting
rice genotypes under drought stress. As a Fulbright fellow she will be learning
bioinformatic tools and softwares for comprehensive analysis of the data generated
from her molecular biology related work from wet-lab experiments. She will be improving
her skills to handle larger data set like those for methylome, transcriptome, lncRNAs, miRNAs,
validation techniques and their analysis so that she can integrate molecular biology with
bioinformatics to develop the drought tolerant agricultural crops.
June 1, 2022
New Intern: Mitchell Millerberg
Mitchell is an undergraduate student at Utah Valley University majoring in Biotechnology.
He aspires to go into software engineering where he can solve biological problems with technology. During the summer of 2022,
Mitchell will be working as an intern at Utah State University in the Animal Dairy & Veterinary Sciences department.
During Mitchell's free time he enjoys camping and studying map topography.
November 4, 2021
USU Today
First International Heroes Night
Dr. Rakesh Kaundal has been selected for the 2021 International Faculty Recognition Award.
August 9, 2021
USU Today
NIH Funds USU Researchers' Work on Fathers' Nutrition and Children's Health
Dr. Kaundal is a Co-PI on a $1.56M research grant from the NIH.
April 6, 2021
USU Today
Uncovering Genes that Protect Alfalfa against Salinity Stress
Salt stress is an example of big data bringing immense benefits to plant science.
May 24, 2021
USU Today
Students Receive Grants to Conduct Undergraduate Research
Kolton Hauck is using big data to investigate diverse strands of SARS-CoV-2 virus.