UGA SAPPs

University of Georgia’s Society of Aspiring Plant Pathologists! Here we will highlight the research in our department as well as events and outreach

[UGA SAPPs @UGA_SAPPs]

Hi everyone! This account is run by graduate students in the Department of Plant Pathology, so please DM us if you’re a prospective student! We’d love to answer any questions you have.

[UGA SAPPs @UGA_SAPPs]

Thank you all for having fun and enjoying this year's SAPPs Fall Fun Day! 🤩🏃🤸🏼‍♀️✨ Thank you to our members and friends from other campuses who tavelled to Athens to participate! Special thanks to, our VP, Lexi, for organizing the event. We all had so much fun!! 🎉🎉🎉

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The Annual SAPPs Fun Day is officially about to begin!! So excited!! See y'all SAPPs! 🤩

[Bhabesh Dutta @BhabeshDutta5]

Honored to receive The Award for Excellence in Extension (2023) by the Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association. I would like to thank vegetable growers, extension agents, and colleagues for our fruitful collaborations ⁦⁦@UGAExtension⁩ ⁦@GFVGA⁩

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Also, earlier this month she has won the 2023 MSA Climate Change Award for her research endeavor! SAPPs is so proud of you!! 🌾🧫🔬✨

©Photos FFAR and Xiomy

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Warmest congratulations to our immediate past secretary, Xiomy Dávila!! 🤩🎉👏 She has been inducted as one of the 2023-26 fellows for the FFAR Future Leaders for Food and Agriculture.

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She will be working with UGA CAES to strengthen long-life connections with farmers, industry, government and non-academic professionals through her research on plant microbiome!

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Thank you guys for coming to the CAES Ag Dawg Kickoff and visiting our booth!! We enjoyed having y'all! 🌱🍄🦠🧫🔬

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(Photos grabbed from UGA PPath Fb Page and Lily's Ig)

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✨Appreciation post for our immediate past president, Lily Lofton!✨ Lily, for the past months, has been earning several accolades for her hardwork and excellence!

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All these recent awards while she's in Austria pursuing collaborative research with Institute of Bioanalytics and Agro-Metabolomics, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU). SAPPs couldn't be more proud of you! Way to go, Lily!! 🪷🥳👏🌱

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Just this month, she has been awarded to present at the recently conducted APS Plant Health 2023 for I. E. Melhus Graduate Student Symposium. She has also received a grant from the Storkan-Hanes-McCaslin Research Foundation for her work in soil-borne diseases.

[UGA SAPPs @UGA_SAPPs]

Hey, SAPPs! Come and join us welcome the semester with our Coffee Hour 🤩☕✨ This is an opportunity to talk and socialize with our friends here in the department. 🥜🌽🫐

[Phytopathology® @PhytopathologyJ]

Brian Kvitko and Alan Collmer review the key discovery of the Hrp type III secretion system in phytopathogenic bacteria and explore important unanswered questions and possible future directions for Hrp T3SS research.

🔓 https://t.co/HHlH8KPnqX

@KvitkoPhD

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Thank you for your support to the Annual SAPPs Blueberry Sale!! ☺️🫐✨

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If you're also interested in blueberry picking, register using the QR code on the second picture, we would gladly appreciate extra set of hands! 🤩 See y'all!

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It's the annual SAPPs Blueberry Sale!!! 🫐☀️ Show us your support by ordering blueberries from us! Just scane the QR code. These are blueberries harvested by us and volunteers.

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Dr. Jin's lab studies RNA biology and epigenetics in plant microbial interaction, aiming to
elucidate the regulatory mechanisms of plant immunity and pathogen virulence. Her lab discovered bidirectional cross-kingdom RNAi between plants and fungal pathogens.

[UGA SAPPs @UGA_SAPPs]

We are honored to have Dr. Hailing Jin (@hailingj1) of the University of California Riverside to be this year's distinguished speaker for the annual E.S. Luttrell Lecture of the Department of Plant Pathology, UGA. 🍄🌿🔬

(2nd picture, ©UCR)