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Graduate students are the lifeblood of the Department of Plant Biology Program.  Gifts to the Graduate Student Award (7904100) account will create a permanent endowment to support graduate students.

The new Science Learning Center is taking shape.  Brigitte Bruns and Lisa Donovan were given a tour of the facility this week.  Click here to view the gallery.

Ed, a member of John Burke's lab, successfully defended his dissertation on genetic diversity across the range of wild sunflower (Helianthus anuus). Congrats!

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/