Thomas Gottilla (MSc student, IPBGG):
- Successfully defended his thesis and graduated in December 2020
Soyeon Choi (PhD student, Dept. of Genetics):
- Received the Robin Hightower Award for Innovative Research (Dept. of Genetics) (April 2020)
Hallie Wright (PhD student, IPBGG):
- Second place in NAPB 3-minute thesis competition (March 2020)
- Passed candidacy exams (July 2020)
- First place in PhD students/Post-docs category for poster presentations at IPBGG retreat (July 2020)
- Received the Roger and Cindy Boerma Plant Breeding Excellence Scholarship Award (November 2020)
John Spiekerman (Post-doc):
- Published his findings that leaf papillae sequester sodium in seashore paspalum, a halophytic turfgrass
Katrien M. Devos (PI)
- Named UGA Distinguished Research Professor (May 2020)
The Devos Lab Team:
- Released a high quality finger millet genome assembly
- Six publications by Devos Lab members
- Was awarded DOE funding to conduct research on the "Systems analysis of the beneficial associations of sorghum with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi studied with genetics, genomics, imaging and microbiomics" (PI: JL Bennetzen)
