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| NEA 2020 Interns |
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| Hope Atkins |
| Charles Herbert Flowers High School |
| Optimizing crop yield with spatially varied fertilizer application |
| Skills acquired: statistics and modeling, computer programming |
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USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory Beltsville, MD |
| Lindsay Brown |
| Cornell University |
| Using computer vision to identify disease resistance in grape |
| Skills acquired: digital agriculture, viticulture, vineyard management, genetics, plant pathology |
| Bailey Bryant |
| University of Maine |
| Estimation of breeding values for fillet fatty acid content in Atlantic salmon breeding program |
| Skills acquired: aquaculture, animal husbandry, nutrition, chemical analysis |
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USDA-ARS National Cold Water Marine Aquaculture Center Franklin ME |
| Molly Dexter |
| Hobart William Smith Colleges |
| Phenotypic analysis of fire blight in Malus species |
| Skills acquired: plant pathology, statistics, horticulture, digital agriculture, genetics and germplasm |
| Sky Harper |
| Drexel University |
| Identification of Endolysin and Glycosyl Hydrolase Family 25 Proteins in Streptomyces |
| Skills acquired: genomics, proteomics, BLAST, protein alignment, Geneious and MEGA software, phylogenetics, identifying candidate phages, codon optimization |
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USDA-ARS Genetic Improvement of Fruits and Vegetables Lab Beltsville, MD |
| Abigail Mathis |
| East Tennessee State University |
| Development of a library of floral mutations in ornamental plants |
| Skills acquired: plant pathology, data management |
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USDA-ARS U.S. National Arboretum, Otis L. Floyd Nursery Research Center McMinnville, TN |
