Mar 23, 2018
New Graduate Student!!
Helen Donelick decides to join the Bass Lab AND the Shen lab! Hooray! What a good combination!
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New Graduate Student!!
Helen Donelick decides to join the Bass Lab AND the Shen lab! Hooray! What a good combination!
Welcome John!
Earlier this week, Dr. John Benedict started as a postdoc in the lab (welcome John!). Lucky John came in with the coldest weather Michigan has seen in decades, a far cry from Guam and Arizona where he was previously living (the snowbank by our driveway is over 5 ft tall). He’ll be working on the Zingiberales project, so that should keep the cold at bay…
A bit about John in his own words:
Hi Everyone, Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m John Benedict, Selena’s new postdoc! I will be working with her and Dr. Chelsea Specht on all things ginger. In 2012 I finished my dissertation at ASU under the advisement of Dr. Kathleen Pigg on fossil ginger seeds from North Dakota, and compared them with a large collection of living gingers. We now have a bunch more seeds scanned and 3D reconstructed, which will help to definitively answer the questions of relationships between the fossils and their living relatives. I’m really excited about diving into this project with Selena and Chelsea and shining a light on the hidden morphology of gingers!