News
(What happens in the lab)
News
(What happens in the lab)
Ohio University-Athens locates in a small town at the the edge of Appalachian mountains where it is surrounded by the Wayne National Forest. Over 30% of the campus area is planted with numerous trees, of which the most famous ones are the OHIO's renowned cherry blossom trees, followed by many oaks and maples. Here it has a clearly-separated four seasons. The temperate weather with good water condition developed a beautiful and peaceful living environment. The city, Athens, has received the title of Best College Small Town for many years. It offers an exceptional opportunity for young people to live and study.
We Welcome You to Visit Us! Find lab open positions here,Join Us
Feb 26, 2024
Congratulations to Peifeng to defend his disseration work successfully and smoothly. Well done, Dr. Yu!
Feb 3, 2024
Congratulations to Madhura for being selected as a student speaker at The Ohio State University Plant Sciences Symposium. It is the second time that the gradaute students from the Hua Lab are invited to present the dissertation work.
Nov 10, 2023
Big congratulations to Peifeng for receiving a faculty (Principal Investigator) position with a generous startup package at Xinjiang University. Well done, Peifeng!
Oct 17, 2023
May 12, 2023
May 11, 2023
Peifeng has been selected as one of the five Named Fellowships through the Graduate College in the 2023-2024 academic year. Peifeng is the recipient of the Donald Clippinger Graduate Fellowship with $2,000 cash award each for Fall and Spring semesters (in total $4,000). Well done, Peifeng!
April 26, 2023
April 26, 2023
Congratulations to Peifeng for being awarded an NSF-funded travel fellowship for the 2023 Plant Cell Dynamics Conference.
March 28, 2023
Our six years of studies on the novel roles of Multiple Organellar RNA Editing Factor 2 have been published on Frontiers in Plant Science. In this wrok, we utilized an inducible CRISPR interference (iCRISPRi) approach to conditionally modulating the expression of MORF2 in Arabidopsis. Our studies demonstrate additional functions of MORF2 beyond RNA editing.
March 3, 2023
Congratulations to Peifeng for being selected as a student speaker at The Ohio State University Plant Sciences Symposium.
June 28, 2022
Congratulations to Peifeng for publishing his first masterpiece of his disseration work on The Plant Journal. In this work, Peifeng discovered a reciprocal degradation pathway between two major protein degradation systems, the ubiquitin-26S proteasome system and autophagy, and their relay in regulating protein homeostasis in early silique/seed development through a comprehensive biochemistry study.
June 28, 2022
Dr. Hua's PBIO 2050 - Biotechnology: From Laboratory to Daily Life has been appoved under the category of Natural Sciences - TMNS by Ohio Transfer 36 from the Ohio Department of Higher Education. To date, Dr. Hua's two entry-level undergradaute courses, PBIO 1140 and 2050, have been approved as Ohio Transfer Natural Sciences courses. Students who take these two classes are eligible to transfer the credits among Ohio's public colleges and universities and receive equitable treatment in the application of credits to admissions and degree requirements.
May 16, 2022
April 22, 2022
April 14, 2022
Congratulations to Madhura for winning the poster awards competition at the OSU Plant science symposium.
Spetember 12, 2021
Spetember 1, 2021
April 13, 2021
We developed a novel machine learning approach to discover the most promising but functionally unknown F-box gene candidates for funcitonal genomic studies. The work is accepted for publication by Frontiers in Plant Science-Plant Physiology. Congratulations to Yang and Madhura.
April 11, 2021
Congratulations to Madhura for being selected as the first-place winner of OHIO Graduate Student Senate Student EXPO 2021 Sponsored Awards in the category of Life and Biomedical Sciences.
April 9, 2021
January 27, 2021
January 16, 2021
Through a large scale of genomic studies on modeling the duplication process of the plant F-box gene familiy, Dr. Hua presented a novel dual evolutionary model of plant F-box genes in his paper published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
November 21, 2020
A manuscript through collaboration with Dr. Xuehua Zhong's lab in studying the role of SCFCFK1 in epigenomic regulation by targeting DRM2 for ubiquitylation and degradation appeared in New Phytologist.
August 31, 2020
An enjoyable story appeared on Ohio Forum to talk about the research process of our recently published Plant Journal article on ask1.
July 22, 2020
July 9, 2020
Our manuscript studying the functions of ASK1-containing SCF complexes has been accepted for publication in The Plant Journal. Congratulations to Madhura, Peifeng, Fanglei and Abby!
April 1, 2020
Dr. Hua received the Promotion & Tenure Notification letter of "Associate Professor with Tenure". Big thanks to everyone that made this happened!
October 25, 2019
September 5, 2019
October 1, 2018
September 25, 2018
Farewell party for Dr. Gao. Dr. Gao joined us in April 2, 2018 and carried out a 6 months of productive senior visiting scientist research in the lab. We miss you, Dr. Gao.
September 10, 2018
September 3, 2018
June 12, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Hua to receive an NSF-CAREER award, "the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty".
May 3, 2018
April 30, 2018
Congratulations to Paymon Doroodian and William Vu to publish the first research article in their science career with Dr. Hua in The Plant Journal.
April 12, 2018
April 9, 2018
April 2, 2018
Welcome Dr. Zhenyu Gao to join the lab for a six-month of visiting research on protein ubiquitylation.
March 15, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Hua to receive 3 PACE funds for supporting undergraduate research programs in the lab.
January 15, 2018
December 6, 2017
The storage space of the lab high performance bioinformatic server has been upgraded to 32 TBs (terabytes) to meet the requirement of several ongoing omics projects.
December 4, 2017
Congratulations to William Vu to be enrolled into the College of Dentistry at the Ohio State University! Well Done, Will!
August 28, 2017
Congratulations to Dr. Hua's review article for being accepted by Frontiers in Plant Science. This is the most comprehensive review article to date in molecular mechanisms of abiotic stress responses in plants. The article was written by several experts in the field through an international collaboration. Thanks Professor Ruth Grene at Virginia Tech for leading the project.
March 15, 2017
Congratulations to Dr. Zhihua Hua to win the third time of 2 PACE funds for supporting undergraduate research programs in the lab. The last two PACE students (William Vu and Jacob Sieg) in the lab won two Provost's Undergraduate Research Funds, one of the most prestigious undergraduate research awards, in the 2016-2017 academic year. We welcome excellent and dedicated undergraduate researchers from biology, chemistry, plant biology, and computer science majors to apply for these two positions available now through the coming 2017-2018 academic year.
March 13, 2017
Welcome Paymon Doroodian to join the lab for developing molecular biologyand biochemistry research experience in the lab.
January 1, 2017
Welcome Charles Ndiaye to join the lab for accumulating undergraduate research experience in biotechnology.
January 9, 2017
The Nikon epifluorescence and Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) microscope is up to running in the lab.
December 12, 2016
Congratulations to Dr. Zhihua Hua to win the Baker Fund award, one of the most competitive internal awards at Ohio University.
November 29, 2017
Congratulations to Caroline Siegert and Jacob Sieg to win The Provost's Undergraduate Research Fund, one of the most prestigious undergraduate research awards.
November 29, 2017
Congratulations to William Vu to win The Provost's Undergraduate Research Fund, one of the most prestigious undergraduate research awards.
September 1, 2017
Welcome Caroline Siegert to join the lab for Honor Tutorial College non-thesis undergraduate research.
October 13, 2016
Dr. Hua gave a talk in the International Workshop of Genetic Basis and Breeding Technologies on High-Yield Superior Rice at China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, China.
September 1, 2016
July 10, 2016
Dr. Hua presented the lab research at ASPB 2016 annual meeting and gave a talk in the Concurrent Symposium.
May 1, 2016
April 15, 2016
Congratulations to Dr. Hua to receive the Ohio University Research Committee (OURC) award, one of the most competitive internal awards at Ohio University.
May 1, 2015
January 21, 2015
December 8, 2014
New shelves have been installed on our first bench and a new bench designed for radioactive experiments has been added at the back corner of the lab. We have finally set up all instruments and furniture in the lab.
September 1, 2014
August 15, 2014
