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It’s not all lab benches and field plots: the team took some time off to celebrate Chile’s national holidays with our traditional “Asado de 18” barbecue, with plenty of laughs,… Leer más: Our Fiestas Patrias barbecue

This first semester, women took over the Plant Nutrition and Genomics Lab. 👩‍🔬🌱🧬 It all started with Silvia Velosa’s successful thesis defense, focused on the functional characterization of a key… Leer más: Women power in the lab: Silvia Velosa’s thesis defense and a grant for Antonia Salvo

Congratulations to Alfonso Reyes Hernández on his excellent thesis defense, which earned him his degree in Biochemistry from Universidad Austral de Chile. His project, “Functional characterization of the DOF transcription… Leer más: Alfonso Reyes successfully defends his thesis

It’s not all science, theses and grant projects: we treated ourselves to an afternoon together to relax, have fun and recharge. Here’s to a 2026 full of great results! 💪… Leer más: A team afternoon to close the year

This week we started sampling our experimental wheat field trial for the 2025/26 season. This FONDECYT project, led by Dr. Javier Canales, aims to uncover the molecular and physiological mechanisms… Leer más: Sampling begins in our 2025/26 wheat field trial

This week we opened our lab doors at UACh to welcome students from Liceo Bicentenario R.A.A.C. in La Unión. Ángelo Riquelme, biochemist and research assistant in our lab, showed them… Leer más: Open doors: high school students from La Unión visit the lab

Congratulations to our labmate Genaro Soto, PhD candidate, on his successful “5-minute thesis” presentation. His work, “Integrative analysis of transcription factors shared by cold and heat stress responses in plants”,… Leer más: Genaro Soto presents his PhD thesis in 5 minutes

A few weeks ago, Dr. Javier Canales was an invited speaker at the Mineral Nutrition Symposium of the Argentine Society of Plant Physiology Congress in Mar del Plata, Argentina. In… Leer más: Javier Canales at the Argentine Society of Plant Physiology Congress

Today we took a guided tour of UACh’s waste management facilities. Many thanks to the UACh Environmental Management team for showing us around. It’s great that these opportunities are open… Leer más: Visiting UACh’s waste management facilities

We are thrilled to announce the successful thesis defense of Ignacio Andrés Miño Manzo, who recently completed his undergraduate studies in Biochemistry at Universidad Austral de Chile. His thesis, titled… Leer más: Congratulations to Ignacio Miño on a Successful Thesis Defense!

Date: December 13th and 14th, 2023Location: Patricio Barriga Room, Graduate School of the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Universidad Austral de Chile (UACh)Registration Link: Online Participation The Graduate Schools… Leer más: Invitation to the Postgraduate Course: «Advanced Techniques in Crop Breeding and Genomics: From Speed Breeding to CRISPR»

Today in the magazine #camposureño, an important highlight shines upon a research project we are conducting in our laboratory, led by Dr. Javier Canales. The aim of this research is… Leer más: Our new FONDECYT project is in the news.

Today is a momentous day for our laboratory, and we are filled with pride as we announce an extraordinary achievement by one of our own, Juan Pablo. He has accepted… Leer más: Congratulations to Our Lab’s Juan Pablo for His Latest Scientific Publication!

We are excited to announce that the international course on «Transformation and Genome Editing in Crops» will be held in Valdivia (UACh) from 11 to 13 January 2023. This course,… Leer más: International course on «Transformation and Genome Editing in Crops»

Our first Plant Molecular laboratory after pandemic¡¡¡¡¡. Excellent start with third-year biochemistry students at Universidad Austral de Chile, extraction of high quality RNA from wheat leaves. Leer en español →

To quickly and inexpensively detect wheat transformant plants that contain the mutation in our favorite gene generated by CRISPR, in NGPlab, we have identified restriction enzyme sites lost due to… Leer más: <em>CRISPR screening</em>

This week we have been busy discussing new and interesting projects, but also enjoying the national holidays together. Leer en español →

We are very excited about the new NGPlab facilities at the Institute of Biochemistry and Microbiology (Valdivia, Chile). Very grateful to the Universidad Austral de Chile Leer en español →

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During 2019, several members of our lab presented their research at national and international scientific conferences. First, Dr. Francisca Castillo took part in the 1st International Wheat Congress in Canada… Leer más: NGP lab presentations at scientific conferences in 2019

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We are very happy to receive a new member of our laboratory, Dr. Francisca Castillo who obtained a FONDECYT Postdoctoral Project 3190461 entitled «Functional analysis of a rotamase gene involved… Leer más: New FONDECYT grants

The invited speakers of the 1st Ibero-American Seminar on Plant Nutrition and members of our lab visited UACh’s Chilean Potato Germplasm Bank. After the 1st Ibero-American Seminar on Plant Nutrition,… Leer más: We visited the Chilean Potato Germplasm Bank

Join us on December 10 from 9:30 a.m. at the Hugo Campos Auditorium, Pugín Building, Faculty of Sciences, UACh, for the first Ibero-American Seminar on Plant Nutrition. Our speakers are:… Leer más: 1st Ibero-American Seminar on Plant Nutrition

On October 2, 2018, Felipe Uribe defended his undergraduate thesis titled: “Characterization of the plant-specific LSU gene family in the context of sulfur deficiency” This allowed Felipe to obtain his… Leer más: Felipe Uribe defends his undergraduate thesis