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ɬ﷬ Plant Science students win big for conference presentations

Published: 30 June 2025

Congratulations to two plant science students in Professor Mehran Dastmalchi's lab, who received awards for their presentations at two recent conferences!

Earlier this month, at the , Ph.D. Candidate Fanfan Li won best poster presentation for her poster titled "Linking physiology and specialized metabolism in a lesion mimic mutant of Catharanthus roseus," out of 83 student and postdoctoral research posters.

At last week's , Dastmalchi's students took home two of four awards given for best student/postdoc oral presentation.

Li won again, this time for her oral presentation, “Describing the orchestrated gene shift in a mutant of Madagascar periwinkle accumulating akuammicine.”

The other winner, Lee-Marie Raytek, also won for her presentation, "At crossroads: Investigating chalcone isomerase-like (CHIL) in branched isoflavonoid biosynthesis."

Photo: Raytek and Li receive their awards at the Annual Meeting of the PSNA (second and third from the left, respectively)

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