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2024​

• Aug: Israel and Ornob Alam have claimed the title of doubles champions for the second time at the Summer Tournament hosted by the Department of Biology at NYU.

• Aug: Israel delivers a flash talk in the first Summer Symposium from the Department of Environmental Studies at NYU

• Jun: Israel delivers a contributed presentation at Botany 2024 in Grand Rapids, MI.

• Mar: Israel and Ornob Alam (Purugganan's lab) win the Spring Ping Pong Tournament (Doubles category) from the Department of Biology at NYU. 

• Fev: Israel delivers a department seminar at the NYU Plant Labs Seminar and joins the Plant Postdoc Leadership Team (learn more about the community here).

• Jan: Israel attends the "Linux and HPC Bioinformatics Workshop" hosted by Dr. Manpreet S. Katari at NYU. 

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2023​

• Dez: Natália F. Marques, graduate mentee, defends dissertation at the National Museum of Brazil.

• Nov: Israel delivers an invited Seminar at the Dept. of Plant Biology, Ecology, and Evolution at Oklahoma State University

• Nov: A commentary on the paper "Molecular phylogeny of Urvillea (Paullinieae, Sapindaceae) and its implications in stem vascular diversity" by Dr. Alexandru M.F. Tomescu is published in Annals of Botany (link). 

• Aug: The Onyenedum Lab moves to New York University (NYU).

• Aug: Israel starts serving on the Publications Committee of the Botanical Society of America (BSA).

• Jul: Israel presents talks at Botany 2023 in Boise, ID.

• Jun: Israel receives travel grants for conferences from the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) and the Botanical Society of America (BSA). 

• May: Israel presents a guest lecture for the PLBIO 4400 Phylogenetic Systematics. 

• Apr: Israel organizes an outreach project to bring high school students to Cornell University. 

• Feb: Israel presents a virtual departmental seminar for the AMAP lab, France (University of Montpellier).

 

​2022​

• Nov: Israel presents a guest lecture for the PLBIO 2480 Plant Systematics at Cornell University.

• Oct: Israel presents in virtual symposia at the 72nd Brazilian Botanical Congress (CNBot).

• Ago: Israel presents at the EvoDevo conference in Vancouver, Canada.

• Jun: Israel visits the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, MA.

• Mar: Israel receives the 2022 Sargent Award from the Arnold Arboretum.

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2021

• Sep: Israel joins the Onyenedum Lab at Cornell University’s School of Integrative Plant Science.

• Sep: Israel receives his Ph.D. from the University of São Paulo.