2009
The Lab has received a grant for $350,000 from United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) for "The Role of a Novel Apomixis-linked AP2-domain Transcription Factor in Parthenogenetic Embryo Development" Joann Conner is Co-PrincipIe Investigator on the grant.
Joe Knoll won 3rd place in the Postdoc Oral Presentation Competition at the annual Society for In Vitro Biology meeting held June 6-10 at Charleston, SC.
Evelyn Perry Morgan (left) won an Award of Excellence for Technical Support and Ye (Juliet) Chu (right) won the Junior Research Scientist award at the UGA Tifton Campus Awards Ceremony on May 7, 2009.
On hand for the event were Dr. Joe Broder, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Dr. Beverly Sparks, Associate Dean for Extension; Dr. Bob Shulstad, Associate Dean for Research; and Dr. Joe West, Assistant Dean - Tifton Campus.
2008
Congratulations to Heqiang (Alfred) Huo on his graduation!
Huo's Ph.D. thesis is entitled “Genetic Analysis of the Apospory-Specific Genomic Region (ASGR) in Pennisetum Squamulatum: From Mapping to Candidate Gene."
Ye (Juliet) Chu and co-authors Laura Ramos, Corley Holbrook, and Peggy Ozias-Akins received the Bailey Award at the annual meeting of the American Peanut Research and Education Society for the presentation and paper entitled “Development of Molecular Markers to Facilitate Pyramiding Genetic Traits in Peanut Cultivars.”
2007
Heqiang Huo and Yajuan Zeng, horticulture graduate students, were honored at The Plant Center's 2007 Retreat.
Zeng's presentation, "Comparative Analysis of Sequences and Expression of BABY BOOM-like Genes in Buffelgrass (Cenchrus ciliaris),” won the third place presentation award while Huo's poster, "
Retrotransposon-Based Molecular Marker Development for Apomixis in Pennisetum squamulatum," received a poster award. Two out of six awards at the Plant Center Retreat were from the Ozias-Akins Biotechnology Laboratory.
The Plant Center's 2007 retreat was held at Emerald Pointe Resort & Conference Center at Lake Lanier Islands on Thursday, October 25 and Friday, October 26.
The Plant Center is designed to foster and support interactions among those members of The University of Georgia research community who share common interests in cellular and molecular aspects of plant growth and development, in plant genome organization and function, in the application of molecular and genetic tools to improve cultivated plants, and in organisms that interact with plants. The Plant Center hosts a regular seminar series, organizes an annual scientific retreat to encourage the development of inter-disciplinary research, and sponsors symposia and technical workshops. For more information, visit their website.
