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GSA wants to encourage you to nominate Barbara McClintock to be the new face of the $10 bill

Dear Colleague:

The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is writing to encourage you to support a grassroots campaign to nominate pioneering geneticist Barbara McClintock to be the new face of the $10 bill.


August 2015, New Editors for Plant Cell

UGA PBIO has contributed two new "guest" editors (1 year first term) to the prestigious journal, Plant Cell: Drs. Jim Leebens-Mack and Xiaoyu Zhang


Congratulations Caroline Nate, Alex M. and Li

Congratulations Caroline Coatney and Alex Matte-Santos, Plant Biology's newest masters' degree graduates.  Congratulations to Nate Ellis and Li Wang, Plant Biology's newest Ph.D. graduates.


July 2015: Hiral and Chase move on to the next professional level!

Hiral Patel, shown here taking measurements in the greenhouse, did her UGA honors thesis under the mentorship of graduate student Chase Mason in the Department of Plant Biology.  Hiral has been accepted into the Medical College of Georgia for fall 2015. Chase, now Dr.


July 2015: Introducing soon-to-be Dr. Li Wang!

Congrats to Li Wang for successfully defending her dissertation under the direction of Dr. Xiaoyu Zhang in the Department of Plant Biology: " Dynamic Histone Replacement and Pol II Redistribution during Heat-induced Transcriptional Activation”