Summer 2012

Celebratory cakes – anatomically correct fertile, mac1 and msca1 anthers are illustrated in transverse section. Challenged to identify the mutants after his Ph.D. oral defense, graduate student Tim Kelliher successfully tagged each cake and then served “sections” to lab friends and family members who attended a barbeque at the Stock Farm field lab.

The 3 Amigos Graham Marchant (right), Tim Culbertson (center), Blaine Marchant (left) -- all vital to our summer corn genetics research.

Graham Marchant hangs out with the Gold Rush cheer leaders at a 49ers football game in August 2012.

Rachel Egger and Gillian Nan enjoying some dessert at one of our summer barbeques.

Will I ever finish my thesis? Drawing out all the models on the white board.

Tim Kelliher, some corn, Blaine Marchant, and the lab truck

Old friends Milvia Racchi (visiting scientist in the lab in the 1990s) and Alex Camusi pose with Ginny Walbot after a great lunch in the countryside near Firenze, Italia. March 2012.

Rainbow over the winter corn in Hawaii

Former grad student Chas Andre, visiting from his job in Finland, tests some pluot jam made by another former grad student Maria-Ines Benito of Davis CA.

Gao Li (visiting scholar from China) and postdoc Han Zhang master tie dye.

Success with tie-dye! Incubate overnight and then slip into 60s design.

Ginny presents a seminar in Taiwan in Feb. 2012. She received two giant bouquets (one pictured here) and a glass sculpture. Also picture is colleague Rachel Wang. Rachel now at the Academica Sinica; Rachel was formerly a postdoc in the Cande lab at UC-Berkeley.