University of Georgia
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Dr. Peggy Ozias-Akins, PMIL Lead Scientist and a professor in the Department of Horticulture and director of the University of Georgia (UGA) Institute for the Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics, has won the D.W. Brooks Distinguished Professor Award. The award recognizes her 30-year career at UGA developing new breeding techniques for peanuts.
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CROPS 2015, hosted by HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and the University of Georgia, will provide a discussion forum for what is the next, most difficult challenge for plant genomics: integrating and translating genomic knowledge to improve breeding and crop production. Join leading genomics researchers and plant breeders at CROPS 2015 to address genomics enabled…
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Over 100 international scientists and stakeholders attended the 7th International Conference on Advances in Arachis though Genomics and Biotechnology (AAGB) last week, November 11-14, in Savannah, Georgia USA—including a large contingent of collaborators from the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab. The AAGB conference, first held in Guangzhou, China in 2006, brings together a diverse group…
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The Peanut and Mycotoxin Innovation Lab (PMIL) participated in a meeting with some of the key staffers of the United States Senate Agriculture Committee, followed by a reception, in Washington D.C. on Wednesday September 17th, 2014. The importance of the Innovation Labs and the Feed the Future Initiative was the main topic of the presentation and…
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USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah acknowledged the accomplishments of the Feed the Future Innovation labs, during the keynote address of the two–day USAID Frontiers in Development Forum. The keynote address also featured speakers Imam Mohamed Magid, President of the Islamic Society of North America and Khalifa Ababacar Sall, Mayor of Dakar, Senegal. Members of several Innovation…
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The Peanut and Mycotoxin Innovation Lab was the recent focus of a segment on the Georgia Farm Monitor Show. The segment titled, “Innovation Lab For Peanuts Helps Producers In Developing Countries,” is an overview of the program, featuring interviews with PMIL’s Director Dave Hoisington and and Assistant Director Jamie Rhoads as well as photos by…
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PMIL Lead Scientist Peggy Ozias-Akins is featured in this profile interview March 27th, 2014 on the UGA website’s Focus on Faculty.
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