Davis, California, USA
September 18, 2014

Twenty-eight breeders/researchers representing public and private organizations from USA, Canada, India, China, Brazil, Colombia and Mauritius, participated in the second offering of the course Program Management for Plant Breeders - September 16-18, 2014, Davis, CA.

The participant list included the first recipient of the “Larry Teuber Memorial Scholarship”, Alejandro Estrada, PhD student at UC Davis.

The participants list:

• Parag Agarwal, VNR Seeds Private Limited, India;
• Paula Antunes, Bayer, Brazil;
• Dov Adler, USA;
• Craig Bednarz, Bayer CropScience, USA;
• Peter Boches, Fall Creek Farm and Nursery, USA;
• Olga Chengaeva, NuFlowers, LLC, USA;
• Mark Christopher, KWS Cereals, USA;
• Jareerat Chunthawodtiporn, UC Davis, USA;
• Janice Duguid, DL Seeds Inc., Canada;
• Alejandro Estrada, UCDavis, USA;
• Dan Gardner, S&W Seed, USA;
• Kaila Hamilton, Cargill Ltd. - Specialty Seeds & Oils, Canada;
• Ahmed Kablan, USAID, USA;
• Daniel Leskovar, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, US;
• Megan Lewien, Washington State University-Crop Science Dept., USA;
• David Linde, USA; Shuangshuang Liu, UC Davis, USA;
• Zhongjin Lu, Arcadia Biosciences, USA;
• Kent McKenzie, Calif. Coop. Rice Research Foundation, USA;
• Mohan Niroula, UC Davis, USA;
• Rita Devi Nowbuth, Food and Agricultural Research and  Extension Institute, Mauritius;
• Constanza Quintero, CIAT, Columbia;
• Yog Raj, Bayer CropScience - Seeds, India;
• Paul Sandefur, Washington State University, USA;
• Jeremy Sisson, Enza Zaden Research USA, Inc., USA;
• Krishan Chandra Upadhyay, VNR Seeds Private Limited, India;
• Cholani Weebadde, Michigan State University, USA;
• Hui Zhang, Shanghai academy of agriculture science, China.

The course objective is to enhance the management skills of professional scientists who are leading and directing plant breeding and laboratory programs in modern agricultural research and development programs of agribusiness companies and the public sector.

Lead instructors included industry experts, Fred Bliss, Tom Francis and Rale Gjuric.  Doriane S.A. (www.doriane.com) contributed with an online presentation on R&D Program Management Software.

For questions or additional information on the course, please contact Sally Mohr at sjmohr@ucdavis.edu or at 530-752-5775, or visit Program Management for Plant Breeders.

Website: http://sbc.ucdavis.edu

Published: September 18, 2014