Field season in full swing

Summer is always a busy time in our program. Here is Jackie Do, one of our undergraduate students helping to make selections in the field for the breeding program. Doens't that look delicious!

Congratulations Marin!

Marin Lonnee won first prize at the CAES Young scholars poster competition (Athens) for her poster entitled "Evaluation of Gummy Stem Blight Resistance in Watermelon Using Stagonosporopsis spp. Isolates". Congratulations to Marin and her mentor, Winnie Gimode.

Marin, with her mentor, Winnie Gimode

Proud parents!

Marin presents her poster at the YSP conference

Marin Lonnee presented her poster at the UGA CAES Young Scholar Internship Program Pre-Collegiate Research Conference.  Marin carried out research with Winnie Gimode on the resistance of watermelon genotypes to specific fugal species and isolates that cause gummy stem blight in watermelon.

Congratulations Lukcy!

Congratulations to Lucky Paudel for successfully defending his M.S. thesis entitled "Refining the Egusi Locus and Mapping of Seed Coat Color Genes in Watermelon". Lucky did a great job and we are all very proud of him!

Lab members, new and old

We added several new lab members in 2018. Welcome to Jesse Kuze (research technician), Jorge Reyes (Ph.D student) and Ayse Topco (research assistant). We all gathered together to say goodbye to Daniel Powell, our long time undergraduate research assistant who graduated.

The End of Summer Harvest

The end of our  2016 watermelon field season. We survived!

From left to right: Leigh Ann Fall, Winnie Gimode, Daniel Powell, Reeve Legendre and Yihua Chen.

New Graduate Student - Winnie Gimode

Winnie Gimode joined our group in Spring 2016. Winnie is pursuing her PhD and will be working on gummy stem blight resistance and flowering time in watermelon. Welcome Winnie!

From Left to right: Suzanne Stone (P.hD student); Dr. Yihua Chen (Research technician); Winnie Gimode (P.hD student), Dr. Cecilia McGregor (Principal Investigator), Leigh Ann Fall (M.S. Student), and Reeve Legendre (Ph.D student).

Watermelon Seed Extraction and Storage

Will Hemphill, an Undergraduate student worker in our laboratory made this video abut manual watermelon seed extraction and storage. Good Job Will!

Congratulations Alex!

Alex Rajewski won 1st prize at the annual UGA CAES Interdisciplinary Graduate Plant & Soil Symposium for the presentation of his M.S. research entitled "Disinfestation and in vitro growth and development of Arundinaria."

 Congratulation Alex!

Enjoying Cucurbitaceae 2014

Geoffrey Meru and Cecilia McGregor, enjoying Cucurbitaceae 2014 in Bay Harbor, MI.