Recognizes outstanding graduate student oral and poster presentations, both in content and delivery, which exemplifies breeding/genetics research.
From 2021 separate awards were established for masters and PhD student posters.
From 2022 separate award was established for early career/postdoc posters.
Curent Poster Winners
2023
Early Career: Emily Delorean, USDA-ARS Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Unit, Raleigh, NC
PhD - Anne Frances Jarrell, University of Georgia (1st), Hannah Stoll, University of Minnesota (2nd), Jaideep Kaur Deol, University of Florida (3rd)
MS - Rafaela Prado-Graciano, University of Florida (1st), John Oscar Enriquez, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2nd), Katherine J. Fortune, University of Guelph (3rd)
Past Poster Winners
2022
Early Career - Leonardo Volpato, Michigan State University
PhD - Carley Clayton, Iowa State University (1st), Sarah Jones, Iowa State University (2nd), Vinavi Gamage, University of Georgia (3rd)
MS - Tony Schuh, Colorado State University (1st), Autumn Brown, University of Wisconsin (2nd), Camila Manriques, Ohio State University (3rd)
2021
PhD - Erin Pfarr, Rutgers University (1st), Richard Tegtmeier, Cornell University (2nd), Jordan Knapp-Wilson, University of Georgia (3rd)
MS - Adam Elissar, University of Florida (1st), Jesse Mutcheson, University of Manitoba, Canada (2nd), Juan Jimenez, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (3rd)
2020 - Zara York (1st), Juan Gonzales (2nd), Natalie Kaiser (3rd)
2019 - Caio Canella Vieira, Sam McDonald, Chandler Levinson
2017 1st place: Stephanie Fong, Rutgers University; 2nd place: Daljit Singh, Kansas State University; 3rd place: Mohammad Rahman, Kansas State University
2016 1st place: Olalere (Marcus) Olatoye, Kansas State University; 2nd place: Eduardo Bernal, The Ohio State University; 3rd place: Justin Ma, North Carolina State University
2015 1st place: David Eickholt, North Carolina State University; 2nd place: Andrea Varella, Montana State University; 3rd place: Paul Sandefur, Washington State University
2014 1st place: Tyler Tiede, University of Minnesota; 2nd place: Jessica Gilbert, University of Florida; 3rd place: Jennifer Kimball, North Carolina State University
2013 1st place: Steve Becker, Colorado State University; 2nd place: Jill Recker, North Carolina State University; 3rd place: Gerardo Nunez, University of Florida
Past Oral Winners
2015 1st place: James Heilig, Michigan State University; 2nd place: Kathleen Russell, University of Kentucky; 3rd place: Jozer Mangandi, University of Florida