VT-REEL

Solving agricultural issues via translational plant science research 🌱🔬👩‍🌾👨‍🌾 VT-REEL logo designed by former TPS members N. Eckshtain-Levi and K. Failor

[VT-REEL @SecuringOurFood]

Join us tomorrow to check out the exciting #plantsci projects our #VTREEL students have been working on all summer 🌾🌱🧑‍🔬🧑‍🌾

#VirtualVTREEL #SecuringOurFood

[Undergrad Research @OurVt]

Join us online to recognize and celebrate the work of our summer researchers!!
2020 Summer (Virtual) Research Symposium
Thursday, July 30 from 10am to 3pm
https://t.co/yGujAnvDxr

[Virginia Tech Translational Plant Sciences Center @VT_TPSC]

The VT-REEL (@SecuringOurFood) undergraduate research fellowship gives students the opportunity to study agricultural issues and plant science research through experiential learning. Participants presented their summer research at last week's @OurVt Summer Research Symposium.

[VT-REEL @SecuringOurFood]

We wrapped the AREC Tour with a visit to the
#EasternShoreAREC where we got to visit the plant diagnostics lab 🧫🦠& field research plots 🍅🍉🌽, & also check-out the drone sprayers in action!

Big thanks to all the faculty, students & staff for having us!

#NIFAImpacts #REEU

[VT-REEL @SecuringOurFood]

Successful first day of the 2024 AREC Tour! 🚐🌾🌽🥜

We visited #TidewaterAREC to check out all the exciting work researchers are doing on soil fertility, plant pathology & precision ag 🧑‍🌾🧑‍🔬

#NIFAImpacts #nifa #SecuringOurFood #REEU

[VT-REEL @SecuringOurFood]

Congrats to 2019 #VTREEL alum, @AlexVaraksa on his new position! 🌿🧑🏻‍🔬

[Alex @AlexVaraksa]

I ACCEPTED A JOB WITH THE USDA! Super excited to be moving to Tucson, AZ this coming spring 🥳🎉🥳🎉

[VT Biochemistry @vtbiochem]

Applications for the VT-REEL Summer 2021 program are due THIS Sunday (February 28)!

For more about the program and for application materials, visit the VT-REEL website: https://t.co/zZE7pohYBs

[Photos were taken pre-COVID-19.]

[VT Biochemistry @vtbiochem]

Did you know that applications for the 2021 VT-REEL Summer Program are currently open?!🍉 @SashaMarinePhD

Apply now here: https://t.co/zZE7pohYBs

Applications are due by February 28 at 11:59 p.m.

[Photo was taken pre-COVID-19.]

[VT Biochemistry @vtbiochem]

Caitlin Cridland, a Biochemistry Ph.D. student working in Dr. Gillaspy's lab, received a departmental teaching award this past December!👏

Last semester, we wrote an article about Caitlin's impact on the 2020 VT-REEL Summer Program. Give it a read:
https://t.co/4S1wpT3419

[VT Biochemistry @vtbiochem]

Due to COVID-19, the VT-REEL program had to be transitioned online, but this didn’t keep Caitlin Cridland, fourth-year Biochemistry Ph.D. student and Graduate Teaching Scholar, from engaging students. Read more about Caitlin and her impact: https://t.co/4S1wpT3419

[Virginia Tech CALS @VTCals]

How does a parasitic plant with no leaves sense when to flower? 🤔 By eavesdropping, a new study shows, using a chemical signal from the dodder’s host as its own.
Check it out! 👉 https://t.co/jFOsdP23nm @vtspes

[VT-REEL @SecuringOurFood]

Thank you to all the faculty, staff & students who have helped make this years' virtual program a success! And most of all, congratulations to all the students who have been excited & enthusiastic to engage in #plantsci throughout the program, despite the online format 🙌👍

[VT-REEL @SecuringOurFood]

Today we celebrated the end #VirtualVTREEL with an awards ceremony & party 🥳🎉 Students provided superlatives for their peers (such as "Most into nematodes' and "Biggest green thumb"), gave speeches & posed with their awards 🏆

[VT-REEL @SecuringOurFood]

Don't forget to tune into our students' presentations at the @OurVt Summer Research Symposium!

Students will be online for the next hour answering all your questions, & presentations will be available until 5pm today. To join the symposium, please visit https://t.co/H0oipF2HPM

[VT-REEL @SecuringOurFood]

The online format allowed our UG researchers to engage in cutting-edge #plantsci research from across the 🌍 & interact with the scientists behind the work 👋👥 Thank you to @ASPB for moving #PlantBio20 online!

#VTREEL #VirtualVTREEL #SecuringOurFood #ASPBForward #ECPSatPB20

[VT-REEL @SecuringOurFood]

Today, we wrapped up the scientific workshop series with a resume review & discussion of students' experiences at #PlantBio20 ✍️💻 Students shared their favorite talks & events- consistent favorites were the Plant-Animal Interactions sessions & the @ASPB_WiPB networking event 🤝

[VT-REEL @SecuringOurFood]

Students are ready & excited to be joining #PlantBio20 this year! Looking forward to some interesting talks & networking events 🌱🌾🧑‍💼🤝

#VTREEL #VirtualVTREEL #SecuringOurFood #ASPBForward

[VT-REEL @SecuringOurFood]

Our current #VTREEL fellows got to chat to local farmer Floyd Childress about all things #ag 🧑‍🌾🌾🚜🐄 Big thanks to Floyd for joining us today & sharing your experiences and expertise👏🧑‍🌾

#VTREEL #VirtualVTREEL #SecuringOurFood #plantsci #agriculture

[VT-REEL @SecuringOurFood]

Students presented project updates (including interesting plant phenotypes👀🌱) for their last Monday group meeting of the summer 🌞🧑‍🔬 Next week, #PlantBio20! 🌱

@ASPB #VTREEL #VirtualVTREEL #SecuringOurFood #REEU #REU

[VT-REEL @SecuringOurFood]

VT-REEL students are getting ready to present their #plantsci research at the annual @OurVt summer research symposium later this month 🧑‍💼🧑‍🌾🧑‍🔬 Thanks to @jnbarney for hosting an engaging & interactive workshop on #scicomm today 👏

#VTREEL #VirtualVTREEL #SecuringOurFood