Yuping Lu comes to us part time from the lab of Dr. John Balsevich here at NRC. Yuping is an expert plant natural products chemist. She is joining our group to carry out wheat metabolite fractionation and enrichment. She will be working with Dr. Kishore Rajagopalan and Ms. Khanh Luu on elucidation of functional aspects of fungal disease resistance and susceptibilty in wheat.