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Want to know something cool about tomatoes? See the two 3 Minute Thesis presentations that were held at Cine in downtown Athens a few years ago and a nice post about a day in the Van der Knaap lab. 3MT presentations and instagram post from the lab are found below. Enjoy! Alexis Ramos Carmen Kraus…
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Manoj Sapkota successfully defended his PhD thesis on tomato fruit volatiles. Congratulations to Manoj, and fellow PBGG students Sam, Kendall and Mark as well.
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Race of Chase 5K! Fun race to support the Chase Elementary running community in Athens. Great run everyone!
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Athens Twilight Criterium 5K! Thank you to the many in our lab and the Bertioli labs who participated this year. Before and after the race. Neda is running real well! And Esther placed second in her age group, yeah! Thanks for the encouragement everyone.
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Yasin Topcu successfully defended his PhD. Congratulations Yasin! Yasin is currently a post doc in the lab where he continues his research on Blossom End-rot.
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Farewell party for Lara Pereira who is returning to Europe The lull in Covid cases gave us a little respite, and we celebrated in style.
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Nathan moved with the lab from Ohio State University to UGA and has now completed his PhD! He has taken a job with BASF in the Sacramento area. Unfortunately, we were not able to host a real party due to the pandemic.
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The lab celebrates the publication of a nice paper on the domestication of tomato from our collaborators Ana Caicedo and Hamid Razifard! A link to the UGA press release, the NSF press release, and the U Mass press release.
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Farewell and graduation party for Carmen Kraus who received her Masters in our lab and Gaetan Moine who is returning home to Toulouse to finish his degree at ENSAT.
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Farewell and graduation party for two amazing undergrads in our lab: Sarah Houtsma and Shamir Harry.Sarah will be staying in the south as the greenhouse manager at Copiana Aeroponics in Atlanta whereas Shamir will be leaving the south for a research technician position at the Jackson Laboratory in Maine. Make us proud!
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