Davis, California, USA
October 11, 2019

Contributing to fill a critical need for trained plant breeders, the University of California, Davis European Plant Breeding AcademySM (EPBA) started its sixth class of students last week with a session in Ghent, Belgium.  The session was organized with a generous support of the local industry and University of Gent; and included visits to BASF/Crop Design and ILVO.

Over the next two years, during the six sessions held in Gent, Belgium; Angers, France; Gatersleben, Germany; Enkhuizen, The Netherlands; Almeria, Spain, and UC Davis; this class will spend more than 300 hours in classes, workshops and the field, training to complete this premium professional certificate program.

The class four consists of the following eighteen participants:

• Loie Albatsh, Genome Seeds, Jordan;
• Ulrike Avenhaus, W. von Borries-Eckendorf GmbH & Co. KG, Germany;
• Maria Bernhart, Saatzucht Gleisdorf GmbH, Austria;
• Julien Binet, Bayer Crop Science, France;
• Nadezhda Dolmatova, National Research University, Russia;
• Kim Daniel Ehrlich, NPZ Hans-Georg Lembke KG, Germany;
• Nikolay Georgiev, Geosemselect Ltd., Bulgaria;
• Marta Graziani, BASF-Nunhems, Italy ;
• Andrea Gualco, Syngenta, Italy ;
• Victor Megias, Semillas Fito, Spain;
• Francisco Navarro Gacia, Hisparroz,S.A., Spain;
• Rafael Ocete Gavilan, Semillas Fito, Spain;
• Baptiste Prenveille, BASF-Nunhems , Mexico;
• Todd Rice, Ag Alumni Seed, USA;
• Sebnem Sarihan, HM-Clause, Turkey;
• Noémi Uehlinger, Sativa Rheinau, Switzerland;
• Nur Ülger, Multi Tohum Tarim San. Tic. A.S., Turkey;
• Shawn Winter, Maizex Seeds Inc., Canada.

Established in 2006, Plant Breeding Academy is a premium professional certificate program offered USA, Europe, Asia and Africa. To date, 351 breeders from over 80 countries have attended the UC Davis PBA, making it the most significant program of its kind.

Applications are now being accepted for the class 8 of the UC Davis Plant Breeding Academy that starts in September of 2020.

For more information on the UC Davis Plant Breeding Academy, please contact Joy Patterson at jpatterson@ucdavis.edu or visit http://pba.ucdavis.edu

The Seed Biotechnology Center was established at UC Davis in 1999 to mobilize the research, educational and outreach resources of the University of California in partnership with the seed and biotechnology industries, and to facilitate discovery and commercialization of new seed technologies for agricultural and consumer benefits.

Website: http://pba.ucdavis.edu/

Published: October 11, 2019