Congratulations to Deblina on winning Best Undergraduate Poster Award at the Plant Biology Annual Retreat!
Congratulations to Emma on receiving the ASPB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship! We are so proud of you 
Congratulations to on receiving the College of Biological Sciences Distinguished Scholar Award! We are so proud of you
Nico, Deblina, Emma and Sarah presenting at the 2025 Undergraduate Research Conference at UC Davis!
Yann-Ru and her family welcomes Baby #2!
Congratulations to Janessa Destremps on being selected for the NIH eMCDB T32 Training Program!
Photo: Janessa presenting her work at the Annual Plant Biology Retreat.
Congratulations to Emma Hui on receiving the Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship! We are so proud of you. This competitive Fellowship supports undergraduate students doing research under the guidance of UC Davis faculty members.
Photo: Emma presenting at the 2024 Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities Conference.
Shout out to Natalie, Nico, Ethan, Deblina and Emma (i.e., all of our undergraduate researchers) for presenting in the 2024 Undergraduate Research Conference at UC Davis!
Please contact Yann-Ru at yrlou AT ucdavis DOT edu to inquire about any open positions.
For graduate students, we are part of the Plant Biology Graduate Group (PBGG) and the Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (BMCDB) Graduate Group.
We are a new lab launched in July 2022!
We ask “why do plants make so many different specialized metabolites?” with plant synthetic biology coupled with biochemical, metabolomics and computational approaches. By doing so, we seek to identify important chemical modifications and products, reveal molecular mechanisms underlying biodiversity of specialized metabolites, and discover evolution-guided solutions for metabolic engineering and synthetic biology to create products useful to humans.