Spring 2024 Newsletter

Seth Naeve and Aaron Lorenz were two of the speakers at a Field Day event for Lallemand Plant Care which was hosted by the University.  

Despite a weird wet spring we have seedlings coming up in the research plots on the St. Paul campus! 

Planting out started in earnest yesterday with grad student soybean projects getting started in the morning and by the afternoon we were planting in the crossing blocks.  Today Sonia Bolvaran did some hand planting in the field during some exceptionally beautiful weather (seen here).  

Mjay Espina, PhD student, and Lucas Roberts, PhD student, were awarded the President's Student Leadership and Service Award which recognizes the accomplishments and contributions of outstanding student leaders at the University of Minnesota.  

Lucas Roberts, Ph.D. candidate in the Applied Plant Sciences (APS) program (advisor, Aaron Lorenz) and Carlos Sanchez, a master’s student in APS (advisor, Seth Naeve) gave talks at a luncheon describing their experiences as 2022 recipients of the C. Jerry Nelson International Fellowship.  They both worked at the Agricultural Research Institute (INIA Chile) near Santiago, Chile, for three weeks in 2023.  Lucas was researching virus pressure on beans and Carlos researched soybean development.

Mjay Espina, graduate student, won first place for her poster "Assembly, comparative analysis, and utilization of a single haplotype reference genome for soybean" at the 2024 Soybean Breeders Workshop in St. Louis, MO. 

The Soybean Research Center held a Lightning Talk and Networking event on January 26th, 2024, highlighting 7 researchers and their recent work...

In this special cross-over episode, CropCast hosts Dave Nicolai and Seth Naeve visit with three talented graduate students who work on Soybean Research Center related projects...