PI Awards & Recognition
The PI received two major honors spanning 2025–2026 in recognition of research excellence and scientific leadership. In August 2025, Dr. Gadhave was named a Schroth Faces of the Future recipient and delivered an invited talk titled “Genomic, phylogenetic, and functional characterization of novel resistance-breaking Tomato spotted wilt virus strains” at Plant Health 2025 in Honolulu. In January 2026, Dr. Gadhave received the Vice Chancellor’s Award…
New PhD Students Join the Group!
We’re excited to welcome two new PhD students to the lab, strengthening our work across ecological and molecular dimensions of plant–virus–vector systems. Richard Smith joined the lab in August 2025 as a part-time PhD student in the Department of Plant, Soil, and Environmental Sciences at West Texas A&M University. Richard also serves as Assistant Vice President for…
Welcoming Our First Ph.D. Student, Ms. Udvashika Puri
We’re delighted to share that Ms. Udvashika Puri, our first graduate student, has completed her coursework for the Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 semesters at Texas A&M University and has now joined the Gadhave Lab full-time to begin her Ph.D. research. Ms. Puri will be working on our FFAR-funded iRNA project (see the Research page for more details). She holds…
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Dr Singh joins the lab
We’re excited to welcome Dr. Rahul Singh, who joined our lab in March 2025. Dr. Singh comes to us from the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Kentucky. He earned his Ph.D. from the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, India, and brings with him extensive experience in virology and molecular biology, with…
PI Gadhave Receives William Dugas Early Career Award for Research Excellence
I am deeply honored and humbled to receive the 2024 William Dugas Early Career Award for Research Excellence. The award was presented by Dr. Cliff Lamb, Director of Texas A&M AgriLife Research, and Dr. William Dugas, Former Vice Chancellor and Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University. The ceremony…
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Lab wins two federal awards. Here’s the full story!
https://agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2025/01/14/texas-am-agrilife-research-aims-for-better-control-of-widespread-tomato-spotted-wilt-virus
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