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Chris is a Postdoctoral Associate with the Louisiana State University AgCenter, stationed in the Robbins Lab at Cornell University. He first become interested in plants and genetics through the hobby of giant pumpkin growing. He went on to receive his BS in Genetics and Agronomy at Iowa State University and a PhD in Plant Breeding from Cornell University, where his PhD work focused on using genomics to improve fruit quality traits in winter squash.

January 2020