Ghazi Badawi, our most recent African scientist fellowship winner, is here from Sudan for a 6 month visit (through Nov) working on sweet sorghum. He will present at lab meeting July 24.
Bulmaro Coutino Estrada from Chiapas, Mexico, is here for a one-month visit to work on the maize project, with Denise.
Natalia Moreno from CIAT, Colombia (Matt Blair's lab) is here for approx. 4 months (working on beans).
Upcoming visitors:
Fernanda Caniato, from Jurandir Magalhaes' lab in EMBRAPA, Brazil, will arrive in August for a 6 month visit (on sorghum).
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Past:
Sharon and Theresa will teach another 2-week molecular marker training course at the University of Ghana, June 30 - July 11, 2008. Like last year, it is being funded by the Kirkhouse Trust and held at the Biotechnology Centre of the Univ of Ghana. See the tentative course agenda, and how to apply here
Jura Magalhaes from Embrapa (Brazil) will be visiting Friday, January 18.
CANCELLED: Loren H. Rieseberg Friday October 19th.
Theresa and Sharon are co-organizing a workshop with the University of Ghana scheduled for July 2 - 13, funded by the Kirkhouse Trust Foundation. More info here.
Andy Paterson, Director, Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, will be the PB&G seminar speaker on May 1st.
Michael Dingkuhn, French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), Ecotrop, France, will be presenting a special seminar on April 30th.
March
Dr. Hartwig Geiger, Professor of Population Genetics at the University of Hohenheim, Germany, will visit March 25. Details coming soon. For more info, see his homepage at http://www.uni-hohenheim.de/i3v/00000700/00141041.htm
February
Bill Rooney from TAMU is visiting Feb 19-20. He will give the Plant Breeding seminar on Tuesday.
The next African Scientist Fellowship winner, Bunmi Olasanmi has arrived. Bunmi is a student of Martin Fregene's but located at the National Root Crops Research Inst. in Nigeria, and will work on SNP marker development in cassava during his visit.
OP Yadav of CAZRI (Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhour, India) is here for a 6-month visit to work on pearl millet and sorghum marker development.
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