Category: Graduate students

Congrats to Dr. Chacon

We are delighted to celebrate Cisco, now Dr. Cisco Chacon, as he defended his dissertation Tuesday at a great seminar at Penn State. A Plant Biology student, Cisco has been engaged in working on cannabis phytochemicals, their production, extraction, and benefits to cardiovascular health. Seeing his project, which encapsulated the fate of these cannabinoids and terpenes…Continue Reading Congrats to Dr. Chacon

Welcoming Madhusha Ranaweera to the Kellogg Lab

We are overjoyed (though the post is a bit tardy) to welcome Madhusha Ranaweera to the lab. She comes to us from Sri Lanka, having studied botany at the University of Peradeniya, and is now a second-year graduate student in the Huck Plant Biology program.  To learn more about her, visit: https://sites.psu.edu/kellogglab/people/madhusha-ranaweera/ Welcome Madhusha!…Continue Reading Welcoming Madhusha Ranaweera to the Kellogg Lab

Elle Defends, Becomes Dr. Abraham

And with that, she’s PhD-done! Our first grad student Ellie, part of Penn State’s Huck Institute for Life Sciences’ Plant Biology program successfully defended her research on #metabolomics #data #analysis and #medicinal #plants (using basil as a case study).  She has worked tirelessly through a pandemic and the hiccups of a new lab to develop…Continue Reading Elle Defends, Becomes Dr. Abraham

First CCNPP Retreat

Members of the Kellogg team went to Hershey to attend the first annual Center for Cannabis and Natural Product Pharmaceutics (CCNPP) retreat, held at Penn State’s College of Medicine. It was a great time to interact with other researchers at the medical school, chat about potential collaborations, and see some of the interesting work that…Continue Reading First CCNPP Retreat

ACMAP 2023

The team traveled down to Charleston, West Virginia this October for the 2023 American Council for Medicinally Active Plants (ACMAP) conference, a diverse interdisciplinary conference focusing on all aspects of medicinal plants, from ethnobotany to propagation to phytochemisty and bioactivity. We were lucky to bring 4 of our students to present, along with our stalwart…Continue Reading ACMAP 2023

Having fun at the HGSAC Symposium

Friday, May 26, we had not one, but two students giving presentations at the Huck Graduate Life Science Symposium. First, Xiaoling gave an oral talk on her work on using biochemometrics and molecular networking to hunt for new AHR-modulating compounds from medicinal and culinary mushrooms! Savannah presented a poster on her work on the Appalachian…Continue Reading Having fun at the HGSAC Symposium

Ellie Receives NIH F31 Fellowship Award

A huge congratulations to our graduate student Ellie Abraham, who has been awarded an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F31 predoctoral fellowship) from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH). Ellie’s project looks at new machine learning approaches to better identify botanical dietary supplement samples, as well as key bioactive…Continue Reading Ellie Receives NIH F31 Fellowship Award

ASP 2022

Wrapping up a busy summer of work and travel, the Kellogg Group had a chance to venture out together for our first in-person conference ever (thanks Covid). We all attended the 2022 meeting of the American Society of Pharmacognosy, held in Charleston, South Carolina. It was a fantastic time, where we got to engage with…Continue Reading ASP 2022

ASP Contributors

We’re lucky to have so many members in our lab that are passionate about science communication and outreach. Recently, Teal and Xiaoling interviewed Dr. Phil Crews (UC Santa Cruz) about his recent paper in the Journal of Natural Products looking at off-flavors in wine from wildfires in California. Their interview has been featured in the…Continue Reading ASP Contributors