It’s go time! Peonies are here! Happy Dance 💃

Thanks ilana for bringing this flower in to the volatiles profiling clinic. Just a touch of blue and it would take on our UIUC colors. Happy Scent Detective.

Your scorecard for telling the players apart! 'The
Handy Bt Trait Table' was updated in March. It's your tool for understanding the #Bt traits packages present in #corn hybrids. Supplements go in-depth on traits & etc. Know what's in what you plant. texasinsects.org/uploads/4/9/3/…

Ahhh - Remembering my two students. Mentoring and training is fulfilling. Only love!

Big family!

Happy Sunday! Nature is alive this morning!

Plants and flowers make me extra happy. These came home with me for planting. Yay! Yeee ha…

It was an AMAZING Day! Thanking the College of LAS and the Office of the Dean for nominating me to the program. Happy End to an awesome week!

Happy to be participating in the I-Engage Program today. Learning about the community I love. Beginning panel -hearing from our locally elected Mayors of Urbana and Champaign.

It’s a wrap! So proud of our three Rockstar students from the Ngumbi Lab. They shared their research at the UIUC Undergraduate Research Symposium. From all of us- Congratulations!

Publication now online! First original research article, and many thanks to my mentors and coauthors Fred Below, Angela Kent, and Andrew Margenot for their support in the process.

We’ve got many more in review and ready to submit, going to be a full 2024!

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I loved giving two class guest lectures yesterday. The Plant Metabolomics and Entomology lecture was fun. My lab continues to grow our knowledge about metabolites and insect/plant interactions and how stress combinations further changes what we currently know.

Today, three of my undergraduate students are presenting their research at our annual UIUC undergraduate research symposium. You are invited. The Ngumbi Lab is proud of all of them.

“They’re looking at us to do our part!” #EarthDay should help us see how human activity impacts the natural world. In #Borneo , I saw rich biodiverse #rainforests next to endless #oil #palm plantations stripped of everything native. We save ourselves by protecting wild places.

Embrace the challenges. Celebrate the little wins in life. Live every. And — Remember to smell the fragrant scents that the fleeting spring brings along.

Happy Earth Day!🌱 🌍

Have a peaceful and peoniefull evening and weekend!

Chemical Ecology family! What recently published papers are you reading?

Have a beautiful evening!

I was fascinated . I can’t wait for us to have a plant anatomage table. Thanks to my teacher that day.