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December's Alum of the Month
Rebecca Tashiro

Rebecca Tashiro grew up in southern Rhode Island, where her first job at a garden center started her passion for ornamental plants.  She then worked as a grower for an ornamentals greenhouse during a surge of vegetatively propagated flower breeding.

The explosion of new products at that time motivated her to go to university to pursue a degree in ornamental plant breeding. She enrolled at the University of Georgia in 2004 because of the excellent reputation of the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences

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IPBGG Grad Student Spotlight
Harshita Saxena

We're proud of our awesome graduate students and want to recognize their excellence!

The Institute for Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics has a vibrant graduate program that offers both a Master's degree and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics.

Next up in our Grad Student Spotlight series:

Harshita Saxena

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Grad Student Excellence
Pradhan & Wright Take 1st Place

At the just-concluded annual meeting of the Crop Science Society of America,

  • Shreena Pradhan (pictured above, right) took 1st place in the C1 (Crop Breeding & Genetics) division poster competition
  • Hallie Wright (pictured above, left) took 1st place in the C7 (Genomics, Molecular Genetics & Biotechnology) division poster competition

Congratulations, Shreena and Hallie, both of whom are in the Devos Lab.

Hallie and Shreena also pioneered our first attempt to have a presence and recruit potential students at a major meeting.

Thanks to both for helping promote the IPBGG through their scholarship and their recruitment efforts!


Urtnasan "Uugii" Ganbaatar and UGA Professor Mohamed Mergoum attended the the annual Norman E. Borlaug International Symposium, sponsored by the World Food Prize Foundation. A Borlaug Fellow, Ganbaatar spent three months working with Mergoum to perform research and gain knowledge using advanced genetic technologies for wheat breeding. CAES News
Borlaug Fellow works with UGA faculty to improve wheat grown in Mongolia Maria M. Lameiras
For Borlaug Fellow Urtnasan “Uugii” Ganbaatar, the opportunity to work with University of Georgia wheat breeder and geneticist Mohamed Mergoum is opening up a world of growth. With her colleagues at the Institute of Plant and Agricultural Sciences, part of the Mongolian University of Life Sciences, Ganbaatar wants to implement the advanced breeding techniques used at UGA to improve her country's dominant crop.
The Orange Bulldog pumpkin at the UGA Bookstore. (Photo by Chamberlain Smith/UGA) CAES News
The Bulldogs behind the perfect jack-o’-lantern Carly Alyse Mirabile
The quest for the perfect pumpkin each fall doesn’t start at the local patch. In fact, it starts up to 10 years prior for researchers like University of Georgia plant geneticist Cecilia McGregor. McGregor leads breeding efforts in the selective pumpkin variety called the 'Orange Bulldog', following the retirement of the program’s founder, horticulturist George Boyhan.
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PBGG Events

During this public webinar, Dean Nick Place will review CAES accomplishments from the last calendar year and provide updates on our goals for the future as we enter 2023. To hear more about where we've been, where we are and where we're going together, please register for the event. 
Dec 07
8:30AM - 9:30AM 2022 State of the College https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iGbwxw5qQaikieygfCyFYg
IPBGG Annual Retreat 2023
May 17
05/17 8:00AM - 05/19 5:00PM IPBGG Annual Retreat 2023 Columbus Georgia Convention & Trade Center, Columbus, GA
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