The Hulke Lab is partnering with The Land Institute’s Civic Science research team to assist in creating agricultural systems and communities that are perennial, diverse, and just. We are looking for volunteers in Wyoming, Alaska, and North Dakota. For more information, click here.
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Our lab is dedicated to helping college students learn about sunflower research and provide them relevant experience for their future careers. Each year we work with incoming interns to create projects for them to lead. The goal of the project is to help give interns relevant experience they can show prospective employers after they graduate.
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Last weekend, our extended lab family held a picnic at Oak Grove Park, where we grilled, played frisbee golf, and rode Brian’s tandem bike. Despite a few frisbees hitting Anna and a parked car, and taking a permanent swim in the river, the get-together was a success!
This summer we had field locations in Courtland, MN; Glyndon, MN; Galchutt, ND; Mandan, ND; and Oakes, ND. The field locations made up about 25 acres that we completed our research on. Some of the highlights from our summer were: Testing out our new seed indexer for planting Laying out 9 miles of drip tape
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Last week, our PhD student Cloe Pogoda visited our lab up in Fargo, ND. She is being co-advised by Nolan Kane at CU-Boulder and Brent Hulke at our lab. Cloe is pursuing her PhD in the Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB) department at Colorado, and is interested in using genomic tools to address a
As part of our lab’s research, we often utilize a gas chromatograph (GC), which is an analytical instrument that helps analyze the content of various components in a sample. In our case, we use this instrument to measure the oil content of a given sunflower variety. We typically run about 5,000 or more samples per
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I have set up a dedicated mySQL database system for the Hulke Lab. It will allow us to much more easily access nursery, field phenotyping trial, and genomic data sets to conduct model fitting. MySQL (Structured Query Language) is the most widely used opensource relational database management system (RDBMS). The first version of mySQL appeared in 1995, and Oracle operates
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Last week, Brent attended the 14th annual national Sclerotinia initiative meeting (Minneapolis, MN) and gave a talk on our lab’s related Sclerotinia project. The title of his talk was “Using genomic selection to optimize prediction of Sclerotinia and agronomic phenotypes for more efficient breeding”. The primary goal of the Sclerotinia project is to better balance the intensity and efficiency
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Hello and welcome to the Hulke Lab website! We are very excited to share our research and look forward to creating a lab website worth visiting. During the months of May and June, we are typically quite busy planting sunflower for our various research projects. More information about that will come in the future, so
