Davis, California, USA
November 2,2022
Jovan Djordjevic, Director of UC Davis Plant Breeding Academy, and Marta Graziani is the recipient of the Euroseeds Outstanding Student Award for 2022
Marta Graziani is the recipient of the Euroseeds Outstanding Student Award for 2022, presented during the General Assembly in Berlin (October 2022). The award handed out in partnership with the University of California, Davis, and European Seed Magazine (Seed World), marks Marta’s outstanding performance in the recently concluded European plant breeding academy course Class VI. Euroseeds for long has been supporting the setting up and running of the EPBA European Plant Breeding Academy, a program dedicated to the further training of young plant breeders and run by the University of California at Davis which has also become an Associate Member of ESA.
Jovan Djordjevic, Director of UC Davis Plant Breeding Academy, commented: “Euroseeds has always been supportive of professional education and continuous development of skills as a necessity for sustained innovation since Academy Inception in 2006. We are proud to contribute to the training of current and future plant breeders.” New Class VII of the UC Davis European Plant Breeding Academy began last month and returns to its usual in-person format, taking students to the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, and California over the next two years.
Applications for UC Davis American Plant Breeding Academy Class 9 in California will open soon. Two new Core instructors have been brought on board: i) Kendra Armstrong have come aboard in early 2022; she is a co-founder of Crop Convergence, and a consultant with AbacusBio, a firm specializing in quantitative genetics and genomics. She works with clients around the world to build genomics-based breeding programs; ii) Jay Patel of Corteva, a recently retired plant breeder, has come aboard too, as a full-time core instructor of the UC Davis Academy in the United States. He has more than 30 years of experience as a Canola Breeder. The two new guest instructors have joined UC Davis Plant Breeding Academy: i) Ken Owens since 2021; co-founder of Magnum Seeds, a prolific Plant Breeder; ii) Jaap Hoogstraten, a recently retired Tomato Breeder from Seminis/Bayer.
For more information on the UC Davis Plant Breeding Academy and its various educational programs tailored for the Seed Industry around the world, visit www.sbc.ucdavis.edu
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