Jake shows off his dissertation tomato cake (2023)

A smiling Filipino woman with short dark hair and blue lab gloves holds a petri dish with germinating seeds; a plant tray full of soil is seen in the background

Bivy rocking her REU internship with tomato seedlings and fungal pathogens (2023)

A male white student with a blue shirt and a hearing aid examines the seeds on a panicle of rice hanging from a stand. A lab bench and shelves are seen in the background.

Eric hard at work measuring the shattering level of rice seeds (2022)

three smiling adults on the top of a mountain on a cold day in March

Sole, Ana, and Ale atop the Holyoke Range (2022)

A dried and pressed wild tomato specimen

Jake’s tomatoes get pressed (2021)

Jake readies the high tunnel (2020)

a group of smiling people in front of a vintage truck

Posing with the awesome Morrill corpse flower (2019)

A smiling white woman in a lab coat and blue gloves holds up her lab notebook

Zhongyun and Stephanie show off the lab mugs (2017)

Annual lab trip to Mike’s Corn Maze in Sunderland, MA (2013)

Allen, Rachel, Pranav, and Elizabeth are ready to tackle any lab task (2023)

A smiling young woman with a cart full of small toamto plants

Maryam tortures some young tomatoes (2023)

a group of smiling people in front of a vintage truck

Another successful run at the lab’s annual visit to Mike’s corn maze.  (2023)

Group of 8 adults and 4 babies smiling in the sun in front of a cornfield

Another gorgeous fall day at Mike’s corn maze. And many babies! (2022)

Beautiful fall day at the corn maze (2021)

Lab group in front of flowering dogwood

Summer get-together in honor of Calvin and Ryan (2021)

Obligatory pandemic lab meeting shot (2020)

Congratulations, Dr. Huang! (2017)

a young white woman in a ponytail and a young white man with curly hair, waring lab coats and sitting at a lab bench. They are smiling and petri dishes and a microscope are visible

Verónica’s good-bye: among 9 of us we spoke 9 languages, and still managed to communicate! (2016)

Altynay, Sherin, Verónica, and Zhongyun looking lab professional (2016)

Weedy rice meeting, Arkansas (2013)

A blue and white decorated cake

Xiang’s absolutely delicious abscission zone cake (2023)

Xiang shows off his lab mug (2023)

many people on some stairs

Lab group looking cutting edge on the LSL stairs (2023)

a young white woman in a ponytail and a young white man with curly hair, waring lab coats and sitting at a lab bench. They are smiling and petri dishes and a microscope are visible

Trey and Isabelle hard at work with tomato pathogens (2023)

The Caicedo Lab acing the 2021 local corn maze (2021)

Tomatoes in the high tunnel! (2020)

A bit lost in the lab’s annual maize maze outing (2019)

Annual lab trip to Mike’s Corn Maze (2018)

smiling people on a lookout tower

Annual Mike’s Maze trip -all girls! (2015)

Growing weedy rice! (2016)

Annual lab maize maze outing (2009)