The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from science, is love” - Luther Burbank

Doug Phillips

Blueberry Extension Coordinator

God gives us daily a page of new life in the book of time. What we put in it runs on our own" - Chico Xavier

Ivone de Bem Oliveira

Postdoc

Per aspera ad astra - hard work pays off

Francesco Cappai

PhD Student

“Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.” – Albert Szent-Györgyi

Lushan Ghimire

PhD Student

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more trees."- George Eliot.

Yang Fang

PhD Student

"Science is simply the word we used to describe a method of organizing our curiosity" - Tim Minchin

Lauren Scott

Fruit Quality Team Leader

If the walk is hard, it is because you are on the right path

Andre Soares Arcanjo

Lab & Field Assistant

Team work is motivation with success, and comes with joy, happiness, and filled with abundance"

Orville Deleon

Field Assistant

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Mark S Mattson

Field Coordinator

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Juliana Benevenuto

Postdoc

The best way to predict your future is to create it

Haley Sater

PhD Student

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Mariana Neves

PhD Student

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known" - Carl Sagan

Alexandria Garcia

Lab Assistant / Tissue Culture Specialist

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven" -Neil deGrasse Tyson

Ryan Cullen

M.SC.Student

Sometimes the greatest scientific breakthroughs happen because someone ignores the prevailing pessimism." - Nessa Carey Dunedin

Juliana Cromie

Lab & Field Assistant

Let's work together towards something better...

Werner Collante

Sr. Biologist and Program Manager

With great power comes great responsibility

Luis Felipe Ferrao

Postdoc

Curiosity is the very basis of scientific discovery; if one replies that curiosity killed the cat, I say only that the cat died nobly.

Lorenzo Bizzio

PhD Student

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Rodrigo Amadeu ​

PhD Student

Cultivate peace and harmony with all

Justin Williamson

Agricultural Assistant 2

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Alexandra Frezer

Lab & Field Assistant

“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.” – Albert Einstein

Matthew Davis

Lab & Field Assistant