News

In the PBC March Newsletter we welcome Dr. Christine Diepenbrock, new faculty member at UC Davis! Read more here https://bit.ly/2U63xwU

The PBC February Newsletter features graduate student Gina Sideli and her work on walnuts. On March 11th we will welcome Bob Quinn and Liz Carlisle to campus to promote their new book Grain by Grain! Find more details in the newsletter here: http://bit.ly/2SyuQiz

The PBC newsletter features graduate student Yufei Qian; a plant science special seminar by Seed-X CEO Sarel Ashkenazi on January 30th; and a graduate student video on active learning with the SCOPE project: http://bit.ly/2sUxxAM

In the PBC October Newsletter we hear from graduate student Amanjot Kaur; the Cucurbitaceae 2018 Conference is around the corner, and registration for the Plant Breeding Annual Retreat (hosted by UC Davis) is now open!

Read the newsletter here!

In the September Newsletter, we hear from recent Ph.D. André Schönhofen who is working on wheat in Brazil; the PBC will host a visit to Sierra Gold Nurseries on October 17th; and registration for our Annual Retreat is now open!

Graduate and undergraduate students pursuing agriculture or related disciplines are invited to participate in the second annual Better Seed, Better Life student video contest sponsored by the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA). The 2018 contest theme is “Rumor Has It.”

Find contest details here!

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The PBC June Newsletter is up. This month we feature Graduate Student Pornpipat "Paul" Kasemsap, the PBC will host a Plant Breeding Strategic Meeting on June 11th, and CEO of Phenospex B.V. Gregoire Hummel will give a talk on June 13th from 12:10-1 in PES 2005.

The PBC May Newsletter features graduate student Ian Thompson; Dr. Angus Wright gives on-campus seminar Monday May 14th, we will visit the Bayer/Nunhems Acampo breeding station May 16th, and Dr. Gurdev Khush wins the UC Davis Medal. Read the newsletter here: bit.ly/2Ib09zG

+ Picnic Day Strawberries is tolerant to strawberry viruses encountered in California.

The PBC March Newsletter can be found here: http://bit.ly/2oUyWW5

This month we feature PhD student Kay Watt, we will visit the Stable Isotope Facility, and Paul Gepts wins 2018 Chancellor's Award for International Engagement.

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT

Assistant/Associate Professor of Crop Improvement for Human and Animal Nutrition
Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis

In this newsletter, the PBC is hosting its annual free community movie screening, this year featuring Fear No Fruit. Graduate student Mitchell Feldmann discusses his graduate program working on strawberry, and the PBC has funding to assist a limited number of students to attend three upcoming conferences. Read the newsletter here.

In the December newsletter, Amy Groh is featured in the Graduate Student Spotlight, UC Davis alums Drs. Sarah Dohle,  Viviana Medina, and Leonela Carriedo collect seeds for Puerto Rico, and PBC Director Charlie Brummer is elected as a Fellow of AAAS in Agriculture, Food and Renewable Resources. Read the newsletter here.

Here is our November Newsletter! This month our graduate student spotlight focuses on Rachel Frank-Greenhut, a second-year master’s student in the Horticulture and Agronomy Graduate Group. We also congratulate Professor Paul Gepts for receiving an award for his work in bean breeding! Read more about upcoming events, interesting articles, and featured faculty and staff here -- http://bit.ly/2m2hfVx