A friendly reminder

I'm raising money for Helping Laura and Katherine get through my death.. Click to Donate gofundme.com/f/helping-laur…

Voted for the first time as proud US citizen. Go out and vote people. It is a BIG deal.

Happy birthday to Dr. Anthony Fauci, thanks for everything you are doing! google.com/amp/s/www.news…

Today is the first day of 10 consecutive palindromic dates (month/day/year combinations). Good omen? 12021 12121 12221 12321 12421 12521 12621 12721 12821 12921

Happy to share that I’ve donated $10,000 to provide medical assistance to the farmers in need in India to help save lives during these times. I hope we can prevent any additional life from being lost. 🙏🏾 #FarmersProtest usnews.com/news/world/art…

Having new acquaintances in COVID-19 era is strange. Half a dozen undergrads recently joined the lab and I have only met them with masks on. Every now and then I hear a cheerful “Hi Dr. Sekhon” from a young person passing by and I am later scratching my head “do I know this kid”

Congratulations Dr. Natalia de Leon Natalia de Leon, the 2021 recipient of the MGC Leadership Award, recognizing her impact on formalizing the MGC, leading large, cross-functional research initiatives, and her advocacy for underrepresented individuals and groups. #MGM2021

Congratulations to Dr. James Birchler, 2020 recipient of the Barbara McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics & Genome Studies. He is recognized for fundamental contributions to understanding chromosome structure, gene dosage, epigenetics, and for creating artificial mini-chromosomes.

Standoff? Coexistence? Saw these two biding time in my pool skimmer this morning. Anybody knows what kind of snake it is? ⁦⁦⁦Dr. Morris? @Jmorri2Jim⁩

A terminal cancer diagnosis has changed the arc of my career. I'm winding down the lab, but VERY excited to launch a fundraising campaign to raise money for young scholars to participate in the Research Society on Alcoholism Annual Meeting.

Happy to share our new article in Plant cell and physiology: interesting study highlighting selection mapping and experimental evolution in a maize population for stalk strength!

Advance Access: Regular Paper published online🖥️ 🌽🌱Genetic Architecture of Maize Rind Strength Revealed by the Analysis of Divergently Selected Populations 📊📉 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pc… Kumar et al.🎉

Postdoc Rohit’s paper on analysis of maize rind strength using selection mapping & meta-analysis of divergently selected populations is out - doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pc…! Thanks to Larry Darrah & team for the populations. A fruitful collaboration with Tim Beissinger @GoPlantBreeding

Congratulations to Manwinder Brar Manwinder Singh Brar for passing preliminary exam and becoming a PhD candidate! You did a great job. Keep up the great work!

📔Research Highlight featuring first authors in Latest Issue (62-7) 🎃🎃🎃 academic.oup.com/pcp/pages/rese… Yuki Takahashi🎊 Hiroshi Yamamoto🎉 Rajan Sekhon, Rohit Kumar, Clemson University College of Science🎊🎉

📔Research Highlight from Latest Issue (62-7): 🌽Genetic Architecture of Maize Rind Strength Revealed by the Analysis of Divergently Selected Populations📏📐🌏🖥️ doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pc… Rohit Kumar et al.🎉🎊 Rohit Kumar

Genetic architecture of source-sink-regulated senescence in maize (Rohit Kumar, Manwinder S Brar, Bharath Kunduru, Arlyn J Ackerman, Yuan Yang, Feng Luo, et.al.) buff.ly/45gb5Tb Rohit Kumar Clemson University Clemson University College of Science Clemson CAFLS ASPB #PlantSci

Latest paper from Sekhon lab strives to elucidate the role of source-sink communications in regulating leaf senescence.

"Punjab will turn into a desert if farmers don’t come out of the wheat-paddy cycle": GS Khush (World Food Prize laureate) Govt. needs to play their complementary decisive role✍️ hindustantimes.com/cities/chandig…