Entries by ASPB Conviron Scholar

Informational Interview with Katherine Andrews of Cresco Labs

March 26, 2020 in /by

Informational Interview by Haley Carter, ASPB Conviron Scholar I had the pleasure of interviewing Katherine Andrews, who is the Director of Cultivation, Standards and Practices at Cresco Labs. Andrews is an alumna of the Plant Biology and Conservation Graduate Program at Northwestern University and the Chicago Botanic Garden where she completed a Master’s thesis entitled Precipitation frequency […]

Informational interview with Dr. Anoma Lokossou from Syngenta, Netherlands

March 24, 2020 in /by

Informational interview by Mathieu Ayenan, ASPB Conviron Scholar Can you please introduce yourself? I am Anoma Lokossou. I hold a Master degree in Biotechnology and Bioengineering from Université de Toulouse in France and a Ph.D. in Plant Breeding from the University of Wageningen. For my Ph.D. I cloned resistance genes to Phytophthora infestans in potato. I did […]

Conversation with Peter G K Clark, Senior Policy Analyst

March 16, 2020 in /by

Informational Interview by Nikolaos Ntelkis, ASPB Conviron Scholar For this assignment, I had the opportunity to talk with Peter Clark, Senior Policy Analyst at Callaghan Innovation, which is New Zealand’s governmental innovation agency. After completing a BSc and MSc in New Zealand, Peter earned his PhD in Medicinal Chemistry from University of Oxford. Then, he moved […]

Announcing the 2020 Class of the ASPB Conviron Scholars Program

December 12, 2019 /0 Comments/in /by

Congratulations to the 2020 class of the ASPB Conviron Scholars Program.  These scholars were selected from a strong competitive group of applicants.  Read more about each awardee. Special thanks to Conviron for making this program possible through their financial support. Modesta Abugu, University of Florida, USA Mathieu Ayenan, University of Ghana, Ghana Carolina Ballén-Taborda, University of Georgia, USA Rostyslav […]