News

"The Dogwood Genome Project: A Model for Woody Ornamental Genomics" has been funded for ~1.5 million by the NSF Plant Genome Research Program. The project is led by Jim Leebens-Mack with co-PIs CK Tsai, Phillip Wadl, Magdy Alabady, and JennyQiuyun Xiang.  Congratulations!

Wendy Zomlefer, curator of UGA Plant Biology Herbarium, just received an NSF Workshop grant.  In the coming year, she will host representatives of at least 10 herbaria from Georgia and the Southeast for a two-day program on best herbarium practices.

Congratulations to Jim Leebens-Mack.  He has been approved for promotion to Full Professor.  No wonder he is smiling!

 

Thursday, February 12, 2015 we celebrated Jim's retirement with a dinner at Trump's.  The Department gave him a photograph of the region of Costa Rica in which he conducts his research.