Jeanine Arana from the Meyers’ lab was awarded one out of the five 2023 Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) Travel Enrichment Experience (TEE) awards. The TEE allows the selected graduate students to spend a week visiting a weed science host organization anywhere in the United States depending on their interests. The WSSA supports graduate…Read more about Jeanine Arana Visited Blue River Technology[Read More]
Emmanuel G. Cooper participated in the Corteva Agriscience ‘Developing Emerging Leaders and Talent in Agriculture’ (DELTA) symposium August 7-9, 2023 at the company’s global headquarters in Indianapolis. The symposium was led and organized by members of the Corteva Research and Development (R&D) team as part of the company’s effort to provide equitable growth and development…Read more about Emmanuel Cooper Participated in Corteva’s DELTA Symposium[Read More]
Kranthi Varala presented and chaired a session at the annual Plant Biology meeting. The 5-day conference was held in Savannah, GA this year and attracts about 1-2000 attendees from across the world. Kranthi presented his work on Discovering novel TF regulators using gene regulatory networks built from extremely large expression datasets.
On August 7th, the Purdue Landscape Team will be hosting a Landscape Diagnostic Training in the gardens at Newfields with a Spanish session in the morning and English session in the afternoon. This event will feature Purdue Green Industry Specialists (Janna Beckerman (professor and pathology specialist), John Bonkowski (diagnostician), Tom Creswell (clinical engagement professor and…Read more about Purdue Landscape Team To Host Bilingual Landscape Diagnostic Training[Read More]
Kathleen Zapf (MS/Hoagland Lab) received the College of Agriculture Bayer AG and Bayer Crop Science Plant Breeding Travel Award for $500. This award is made possible by the efforts of Dr. Emilio Oyarzabal of the Bayer Research and Development Plant Breeding Team. She will be attending and presenting her research in St. Louis at the…Read more about Kathleen Zapf Receives Travel Grant[Read More]
Purdue College of Agriculture’s Envision Magazine includes an article on the Purdue Student Farm: Rooted in the Land Grant Mission.
Sofia Gomez (MS student) and Celina Gomez presented July 27th at the IPPS-ER meeting. Sofia provided an update on her research with vertical indoor propagation.
Ashley Adair and northeast Indiana ANR Educators hosted the NE IN Organic Field Day at Northeast Purdue Ag Center. The event attracted 32 participants and featured equipment demonstrations, knowledge-building for beginner organic grain growers, an update on disease management in organic grain, and an introduction to Purdue organic field research funded by OREI.
ESE/HLA Graduate student Cristian Salinas and HLA Professor Lori Hoagland attended the 4th Plant Microbiome Symposium in Quito, Ecuador. Salinas received a scholarship to help defray the cost of his attendance at the event, and presented a poster titled ‘The role of seed transmitted endophytes in quinoa tolerance to cadmium stress’.
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