-Magdalen Lindeberg Innovations in genetics and genomics are increasingly applicable across kingdoms such that plant and animal breeding, advancing on separate tracks for decades, have begun to converge. How can plant breeders integrate advances ...
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-Magdalen Lindeberg The following SIPS graduate students are this year’s recipients of the Barbara McClintock Graduate Student Award, announced December 5th. Each student will receive $2,930 from the McClintock endowment. Craig Carlson is a ...
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-Magdalen Lindeberg A big thank you to all the organizers of the 2017 SIPS Holiday Party and to Tara Reed in particular. Thanks also to Craig Cramer for manning the camera.
-Magdalen Lindeberg Plant breeding is among humankind’s oldest and most important endeavors. A rapidly expanding toolbox based on genetic information, high-throughput phenotyping, and new statistical approaches is revolutionizing the speed and precision with which ...
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-Magdalen Lindeberg A reception was held on Friday September 29 to welcome our six most recently hired faculty, including Awais Khan (Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section), Ying Sun (Soil and Crop Sciences Section), ...
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-Magdalen Lindeberg What do squash beetles, cold hardiness genes, and plastoglobule kinases have in common? All three are addressed by graduate student projects recently funded through the Schmittau-Novak Small Grants Program. Supported by a ...
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-Magdalen Lindeberg With berries, hops, weeds, succulents, and baskets overflowing with produce, SIPS was a significant presence at the CALS Commons “Street Fair” following the inauguration of Cornell President Martha Pollack. SIPS affiliated displays ...
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-Magdalen Lindeberg Several Cornell faculty affiliated with the School of Integrative Plant Science traveled to Shenzhen China in July for the International Botanical Congress (IBC), the largest international conference in the fields related to ...
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-Magdalen Lindeberg Cornell’s first Industrial Hemp Field Day was held August 1 beside the flourishing variety trials on Dryden Road in Ithaca. SIPS Director and project coordinator for Cornell’s New York State Industrial Hemp ...
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-Magdalen Lindeberg From nematode quantification in soil to genes controlling acidity in apples, to identification of disease-vectoring insects, and more, research presented June 23 at the 2017 NYSAES Graduate Student Symposium in Geneva highlighted ...
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