Jessica Brown, a UGA Plant Biology major, has been awarded the very first “Plant Biology Undergraduate Research Support Award." She will be working with Dr. Dorset Trapnell on "Phylogeny of Epidendron magnoliae, a North American epiphytic orchid."

Check out this cool piece on polyextremophile Deinococcus radiodurans, aka Conan the Bacterium, from Rosemary Wills, freshman UGA PBIO major and Momany lab member.

https://athensscienceobserver.wordpress.com/2015/10/22/earths-microscopic-superhero/

Jason, co-advised by Jim Leebens-Mack and Wendy Zomlefer, successfully defended his dissertation on the systematics of palms with a focus on the Arecoideae. Congrats!

The University of Georgia invites applications at the Assistant/Associate Professor level for a tenure‐track faculty position addressing the big data/data science challenges posed by Computational Plant Biology starting August 2016.

Kudos to Alumnus Yainitza Hernandez!

The LISELL-B Project coordinated by PBIO alumna Yainitza Hernandez (PhD, 2011) recognized as “Bright Spot in Hispanic Education” by White House.