Team Members

Current Team Members

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

"That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt a real superhero" Stan Lee

Diego Cabezas

Masters Student

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

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

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

Matthew Davis

Lab & Field Assistant

Mark S Mattson

Field Coordinator

Juliana Benevenuto

Postdoc

Per aspera ad astra - hard work pays off

Francesco Cappai

PhD Student

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

Field Team Leader

I believe that implementing new technological advances in different areas, such as, horticulture, can improve efficacy and quality of the investigations performed by researchers"