05.12.2025
We have quite a few undergraduate scholars graduating this Spring. Best wishes to Lindsay, Daniel, Ava, Frankie, Landon, and Ethan! Thank you for all of your great work.
11.01.2024
A new undergraduate student, Bess Ketner, joins the Qiu lab! Welcome on board!
09.15.2024
Four undergraduate students, Mary, Morgan, Jackson, and Ethan, join the Qiu lab! Welcome on board!
08.23.2024
Four undergraduate students, Landon, Madison, Cody, and Rishi, join the Qiu lab! Welcome on board!
08.14.2024
Two new graduate students, Chami and Upasana, join the Qiu lab! Welcome on board!
07.18.2024
Alyssa received an ASPB travel award and presented our work on the PIF4 TAD function at ICAR 2024 in San Diego, CA.
07.11.2024
Zuxia and Arnold join the Qiu Lab as ARISE scholars. Enjoy the training!
06.19.2024
Frankie and Ava start their training in the Plant Phenomics and Molecular Genetics Summer Research Program in the Qiu Lab.
06.10.2024
Cody joins the Qiu Lab as an ARISE scholar. Enjoy the training!
04.24.2024
Sampada and Berry received the 2024 McRight and Cockerham Scholarships, respectively! Congratulations!
03.25.2024
Frankie joins the Qiu lab as a Research Assistant. Welcome on board!
03.21.2024
John won the Taylor Medal, the highest academic honor a student can receive at UM!
11.14.2023
Lindsay was awarded the Stamps Impact Prize to complete her project on gravitropism! Congratulations, Lindsay!
11.14.2023
Abhishesh was awarded a Dissertation Fellowship for the Spring 2024 semester! Congratulations, Abhishesh!
11.03.2023
Savannah won a travel award and will present at the 2024 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM in Washington, D.C., on March 14-16, 2024. Congratulations, Savannah!
10.09.2023
Our collaboration paper with Dr. Yiwei Han’s group at Ole Miss is online now. Check it out here!
10.05.2023
Dr. Haibo Xiong joined the Qiu Lab as a Postdoc. Welcome on board!
08.21.2023
Rosa, Trent, and Jennifer join the Qiu lab as Research Assistants. Welcome on board!
08.14.2023
A new graduate student, Sampada, joins the Qiu lab! Welcome on board!
08.07.2023
Abhishesh gave an oral presentation in the “Plant Responses to Light and Temperature” concurrent session at the Plant Biology meeting in Savannah, Georgia.
07.06.2023
A new graduate student, Berry, joins the Qiu lab! Zack and Rosa join the Qiu lab as Research Assistants. Welcome on board!
05.01.2023
Anupa won the 2023 Steve and Mary Ann Cockerham Scholarship. Congratulations, Anupa!
04.14.2023
Abhishesh wins the Graduate Achievement Award. Congratulations, Abhishesh!
04.03.2023
Alyssa wins a Goldwater Scholarship. Congratulations, Alyssa! Click here to see the details.
03.15.2023
The Qiu Lab received an NSF CAREER Award and will study the functions of thermosensory transcription factors in thermomorphogenesis. Click here to see the news report.
03.04.2023
Ava and Maianh join the Qiu lab as Research Assistants. Welcome on board!
02.24.2023
Savannah has been selected by The Mississippi INBRE Health Scholars Program (MIHS) for a 10-week summer internship! Congratulations, Savahhah! https://msinbre.org/health-scholars/
01.16.2023
Victoria joins the Qiu lab as a Research Assistant. Welcome on board!
10.26.2022
Trevor and Daniel join the Qiu lab as Research Assistants. Welcome on board!
09.05.2022
Abhishesh published his first first-authored paper in Plant Physiology! It’s officially online! Check the paper here: https://academic.oup.com/plphys/advance-article/doi/10.1093/plphys/kiac412/6692316?searchresult=1. Congratulations, Abhishesh!
08.31.2022
Lindsay, Seohyun, and Robert join the Qiu lab as Research Assistants. Welcome on board!
05.10.2022
Abhishesh won the Cockerham Scholarship and Ranjeeta won the McRight Scholarship! Congratulations, Abhishesh and Ranjeeta!
05.09.2022
Paul and John join the Qiu lab as Research Assistants. Welcome on board!
04.18.2022
Abhishesh successfully completed his comprehensive exams. He is officially a Ph.D. candidate! Congratulations, Abhishesh!
04.11.2022
Eden receives the highest UM Academic Award, Taylor Medal. Congratulations, Eden! Click here to see the details.
04.05.2022
Abhishesh won the 1st place award for the oral presentation in the Division of Cellular, Molecular, and Developmental Biology at the 2022 Mississippi Academy of Sciences meeting. Congratulations, Abhishesh!
03.15.2022
Alyssa is selected by the AMGEN Scholars Summer Research Program to perform biomedical sciences at Washington University in St Louis in the Summer of 2022. Congratulations, Alyssa!
01.18.2022
Savannah, Lilla, and Matthew join the Qiu lab as Research Assistants. Welcome on board!
01.12.2022
Two new graduate students—Ranjeeta Odari and Anupa Wasti—join the Qiu Lab. Welcome on board!
01.01.2022
Happy New Year! The Qiu Lab and Dr. Han’s lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering received a new NSF EAGER award and will start a new project on developing micro-devices for plant thermomorphogenetic studies.
09.23.2021
Shaunna joins the Qiu lab as a Research Assistant. Welcome on board!
07.07.2021
Kashama joins as the first high school researcher in the Qiu lab. Welcome on board!
04.21.2021
Caroline and Chloe successfully defended their honors theses. Congratulations!
04.09.2021
Abhishesh won the 2021 Ole Miss Summer Research Assistantship from the Graduate School. Congratulations, Abhishesh!
04.06.2021
Qiu lab publishes the first research article in Nature Communications with Meng Chen’s lab at UC-Riverside. Congratulations to Abhishesh on your first publication!
Ole Miss News Release: https://news.olemiss.edu/helping-crops-combat-climate-change/
01.22.2021
Alyssa joins the Qiu lab as a Research Assistant. Welcome on board!
11.30.2020
Julia joins the Qiu lab as a Research Assistant. Welcome on board!
10.10.2020
Ella, Feral, and Suzanne join the Qiu lab as Research Assistants. Welcome on board!
05.30.2020
Qiu lab publishes the first review article in Plant Science.
01.13.2020
Carol and Caroline join the Qiu lab as Research Assistants. Welcome on board!
12.12.2019
Abhishesh joins the Qiu lab as a Rotation Graduate Student. Welcome on board!
10.05.2019
Karen joins the Qiu lab as a Research Assistant. Welcome on board!
09.19.2019
Four undergraduate students, Karlie, Chloe, Allen, and Eden, join the Qiu lab as Research Assistants. Welcome on board!
08.12.2019
Qiu lab is temporarily located at 425 Shoemaker Hall.
Qiu Laboratory at Ole Miss 