Winer 2025
Shahela Yesmine joins our lab as a Biochemistry grad! Welcome in our lab family!
Mubarak will have a "sister"!
Luckily, we were able to find one hour which suited everybody in lab to go for Christmas lunch.
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Old friendship & new collaborations; Visit at University of Warsaw, Poland.
Salute Madame Skladowska-Curie.
Fall 2025
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Asha and Ben received 2025 PSI Heuermann Research Idea Awards. Grace presented her research at the PSI Symposium “Next Generation Crop Improvement: From Prediction to Practice and Mechanism”.
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Ben was selected to give a talk at the Department Retreat.
I am so thankful to be a part of this year Japan-US Binational Photosynthesis Workshop “From Molecules to Physiology” that took place in Matsue, Shimane, Japan. Big appreciation to the organizers for a great hospitality and unforgettable moments.
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What a delightful experience to be a part of Alice PhD defense at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, UK. Congratulations Alice, great job and best wishes!
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It was great to see NC1200 group and visit Washington State University Vancouver, WA.
October 18, 2025.
Historical picture of Summer 2016.
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Sad news came to us this Fall about Steve Long passing. The photosynthesis community will never be the same and will sadly miss you. ​
Summer 2025
Art of Lincoln
Spring 2025
It was wonderful to meet with old friends and recognize how scientifically we grow since we have left UIUC. The Gordon Research Conference: CO2 Assimilation in Plants from Genome to Biome, Newry, ME, no doubt, the best conference of the year.
Asha and Ben presented first time at the Gordon Research Conference
...and they showed natural gift to arching and axe throwing.
In Spring 2025, we welcomed excellent team of undergraduates: Gracie, Grace and Madison (from left).
We were hosting in our lab wonderful, curious and gifted guests from around the world of Nebraska.
Some current and previous members of Glowacka Lab got together to celebrate Kasia's promotion and tenure! I am so grateful for all dedication of many young scientists passing my lab over the last years.
Official celebration of Kasia's promotion and tenure!
Mid West ASPB 2025: Grace and Gracie presented their first poster at the scientific conference.
Summer 2024
Harvesting the last Maria's experiment. We will miss you Maria! Good luck at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Scientific Picnic with Photosynthesis.
Team effort in hand-sowing our soyabean plots.
Summer 2023
I was honored to co-organized SOY2023 Biennial Cellular & Molecular Biology of the Soybean Conference, Lincoln, NE.
Spring 2022
Just a typical day in Glowacka Lab, first greenhouse work then ice-cream ;)
Annie graduated from the Department of Biochemistry with the honors! She will leave us to start her first "real" job in forensic sciences in Oregon! We miss you already Annie!
Alex leaves us to start the PhD Chemistry program at this dreamed school in Oregon!
Winter 2021
Hands-on experience prepared by our lab for the high school sophomore cohort of girls in the Eureka! STEM program (Girls, In)
Seema and Annie presenting their research at Virtual Research Poster Symposium UNL - Rothamsted (UK)
Spring 2021
Summer 2020
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Seema working on the new outreach ideas.
"Moving" sorghum field to lab.
There is never a bad time for art. The sorghum field site at the dawn during the collection of leaf samples.
Summer field team of CRRI project (from left Rachel, Seema, Annie and Quinn).
LI6800F unleashed in the sorghum field.
Marcin Grzybowski (Schnabel Lab) in the sorghum field. Nobody knows the map of this field better than Marcin.
Coffee Meniscus Convex (grant writing).
Weekly meeting of Regulation of Photosynthetic Processes Project (from the top left to bottom right: Aline Rodrigues de Queiroz, Kasia Glowacka, Rebecca Roston, Nate Bickford, Connor Hines, Julie Stone, Nicole Buan and Jithesh Vijayan).
2019
Annie engineering the template for tobacco plot.
Jared with Matt setting the Miscanthus field.
Ice cream celebration.
Matt and Himani in the CRRI corn field.
Hands-on lab experience for Woman in Science Conference for high school students.
Annie working on her first tobacco transformation.
Annie and Jared getting ready for visitors during Fascination in Plant Day.
Laboratory activity for high school students in the Upward Bound program.
Fall 2018
Grand Challenges Annual Meeting Berlin, Germany (from the left: host of the meeting, Berlin mural and Spree River).
NC1200 meeting in St. Louis, MO.
