Amelia Lovelace
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The Kvitko lab is happy to welcome our newest member, Jovana Mijatovic in August 2017. Jovana is a PhD student co-advised by Dr. Brian Kvitko and Dr. Ron Walcott. She received her Bachelor’s in Pant protection at Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade in Serbia. Her Bachelor’s thesis is from Plant Pathology department, where she was worked…
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Our Young Scholar, Henry Vencill returned to the lab in the summer of 2017 to conduct research as part of the Young Scholar Program. In this program, high school student have the opportunity to sharpen their lab skills and present their findings. Henry’s project focused on determining the regulators of P. syringae pv. tomato effector hopAH2-1 during…
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On November 11th 2016, students, staff and professors from various CAES Departments came together for the 5th Annual Plant & Soil Interdisciplinary Symposium. Our very own Amelia Lovelace was elected to represent the Plant Pathology Department as a member of the student planning committee for this event. The Symposium consisted of two student competitions between…
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The Society of Aspiring Plant Pathologists (SAPPs) of the Plant Pathology Dept. at UGA participated in the Athens AIDS Walk on October 8th 2016. This graduate event was organized and coordinated by our very own Donald Gillis, the Social Chair of SAPPs. Our group raised over $600 to this cause, with a total of $24,000…
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The Kvitko Lab visited Portland, Oregon for this year’s International Congress Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions Conference. Both Amelia Lovelace and Dr. Brian Kvitko presented a poster titled “New Approaches to accessing the P. syringae transriptome in planta“. This poster had information regarding the two methods, qRT PCR and RNASeq, developed by Amy Smith and Amelia Lovelace respectively.…
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Our Young Scholar, Henry Vencill won First Place today at the Closing Ceromony for the Young Scholars Program Poster Presentation here at UGA. Henry is a high school student at Cedar Shoals High School who had worked in our lab this summer developing interfering CRISPR components for virulent genes in Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato. We had a lot…
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