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Anthony Barraco
Cornell University
 
Establishing international hemp fiber phenotyping protocols and optimizing hemp germplasm curatorial techniques.
Skills acquired: hemp horticultural techniques, fiber analysis, DEI and outreach, controlled environment agriculture, 

USDA-ARS Plant Genetic Resources Unit, Geneva, NY

 

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Allison Chhay
Cornell University
 
Measuring the impacts of the USDA-ARS PGRU (Geneva, NY) Clonal and Vegetable crop collections
Skills acquired: Statistics in R, SQL, Umbraco, horticulture, and germplasm

USDA-ARS Plant Genetic Resources Unit, Geneva, NY

 

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Taylor Coburn
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
 
Investigating dihydrochalcones in apple
Skills acquired: liquid chromatography, statistics in R, DNA isolation and PCR, and germplasm

USDA-ARS Plant Genetic Resources Unit, Geneva, NY

 

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Johanna Kiegler
Cornell University
 
Iron bioavailability in maize
Skills acquired: chemistry, genetics, breeding, agronomy, nutritional improvement

USDA-ARS Plant, Soil and Nutrition Research, Ithaca NY

 

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Kayla Pasteur
 
 
Pheromone trapping for striped cucumber beetles
 

USDA-ARS Invasive Insect Biocontrol & Behavior Laboratory: Beltsville, MD

 

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Meredith Ryan
Yale University
 
Dihydrochalcones and apple russeting
Skills acquired: liquid chromatography, statistics in R, RNA isolation, horticulture, and germplasm

USDA-ARS Plant Genetic Resources Unit, Geneva, NY

 

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