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This year, the Plant Biology Graduate Student Association (PBGSA) sponsored the "Future Plant Scientist" award at the 2015 Georgia Science and Engineering Fair here in Athens.

Dr. Wendy Zomlefer has been awarded a UGA Public Service and Outreach Fellowship for fall 2015.  Wendy is Curator of UGA’s Herbarium and has been actively involved with outreach activities across the state.

Kierson Jones graduated with a BS in Plant Biology in December 2014.  He is currently working as a technician on multiple projects in Dr. Khang's lab.  He is studying rice blast (Magnaporthe oryzae), a destructive fungal pathogen of rice.

Since June 2014, PBIO undergrad Emma Shipman has worked in the Khang lab studying early infection morphogenesis of the rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae​. With other lab members, she co-authored a poster and paper (in review) on dynamics of effector-secreting cell establishment by M.

What do PBIO grad students do on Spring Break? They host a regional conference! Uma Nagendra and Jeffery Cannon led a group of graduate students to host the Southeastern Ecology and Evolution Conference (SEEC) at UGA this past March.

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