Annual Retreats

2023 Annual Retreat

MS section
- 1^st Place: Gema Nugraha
  Capturing diversity from uncharacterized wild peanut collection
- 2^nd Place: Chad Hawkins
  Efficient transformation and regeneration of morning glory
PhD section:
- 1^st Place: Vincent Pennetti
  Generation of auxotrophic agrobacterium strains using a CRISPR-mediated base-editor
- 2nd Place: Qian Feng
  Characterization of a novel fruit flavor aroma locus in tomato
- 3^rd Place: Nathaniel Burner
  Developing and deploying a UAS-based pipeline for determining maturity of so
Staff/Postdoc section:
- 1^st Place: Eudald Illa Berenguer
  Bladderwort short sequences work as insulators in Nicotiana plants

801 Front Avenue
Columbus, GA 31901

M.S.
- First Place – Sefa Ayten
  Title: Chromosome-scale Genome Assembly of the Medicinal Plant Teucrium marum (Lamiaceae)
- Second Place – Stephanie Botton
  Title: Identifying and Characterizing Recombinant Lines of the Arachis cardenasii A09 Introgression in a Recombinant Inbred Peanut Population
Ph.D.
- First Place – Vinavi Gamage
  Title: Perturbations to soybean methionine metabolism underlying SHMT8-mediated resistance to soybean cyst nematode
- Second Place – Qian Feng
  Title: Candidate gene identification for tomato aroma volatiles through an automatic gene screening pipeline with GWAS and linkage mapping
- Second Place – Manoj Sapkota
  Title: Genome-wide association mapping for fruit volatiles contributing to tomato flavor
Staff/Post-Doc
- First Place – Nicole Bachleda
  Title: Genetic Loci Rj5 and Rj6 Control Nodulation in Soybean
- Second Place – Raquel Rocha
  Title: Novel dorsal gland effector candidates identified from rootknot nematode adult females

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Jekyll Island, Georgia 31527