{"id":111,"date":"2018-01-23T17:15:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T22:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/kvitkolab\/?p=111"},"modified":"2018-01-23T17:15:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T22:15:27","slug":"5th-annual-plant-soil-interdisciplinary-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/kvitkolab\/2018\/01\/5th-annual-plant-soil-interdisciplinary-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"5th Annual Plant &amp; Soil Interdisciplinary Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_117\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117\" style=\"width: 318px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-117 \" src=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/kvitkolab\/files\/2016\/12\/GroupInterPlantSoil-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/kvitkolab\/files\/2016\/12\/GroupInterPlantSoil-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/kvitkolab\/files\/2016\/12\/GroupInterPlantSoil-185x138.jpg 185w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/kvitkolab\/files\/2016\/12\/GroupInterPlantSoil.jpg 308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plant Pathology Dept win the Participation Award<span style=\"font-size: 16px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On November 11th 2016, students, staff and professors from various CAES Departments came together for the 5th Annual Plant &amp; Soil Interdisciplinary Symposium. \u00a0Our very own Amelia Lovelace was elected to represent the Plant Pathology Department as a member of the student planning committee for this event. \u00a0The Symposium consisted of two student competitions between the Masters and PhD students of the Plant Pathology, Crop and Soil Sciences, Horticulture, and Plant Breeding, Genomes &amp; Genomics Departments. \u00a0Students competed for cash prizes of up to $150 so needless to say there were a lot of great presentations. Brian Kvitko served as one of the judges for the Masters presentation session. Departments also competed for the coveted Participation Award. \u00a0Plant Pathology had previously won the award and golden leaf trophy at last year&#8217;s symposium.<\/p>\n<p>With a catered lunch from Chipotle followed by a riveting presentation by the invited speaker and Director of the State Botanical Garden of Georgia,Wilf Nicholls, over 75 people attended the event! \u00a0The awards were presented at the social to conclude the Symposium. \u00a0The Plant Pathology Department took home two awards. \u00a0Frances Brown won second place in the Masters student competition and the Department as a whole won the Participation award for a second year in a row!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 11th 2016, students, staff and professors from various CAES Departments came together for the 5th Annual Plant &amp; Soil Interdisciplinary Symposium. \u00a0Our very own Amelia Lovelace was elected to represent the Plant Pathology Department as a member of the student planning committee for this event. \u00a0The Symposium consisted of two student competitions between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":462,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/kvitkolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/kvitkolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/kvitkolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/kvitkolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/kvitkolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/kvitkolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/kvitkolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/kvitkolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/kvitkolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/kvitkolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}