July has been a busy month, besides our flowering potato trials shown in this picture here.
Of note, Salem Ermish (PhD student with Tan and Andrade labs) was featured in a ribbon cutting ceremony with Maine Potato Board Executive Director Jeannie Tapley, Maine Govenor Janet Mills, UMaine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy, UMaine College of Earth, Life and Health Sciences Dean Diane Rowland for the potato phenotyping lab in Aroostook Research Farm in Presque Isle, ME. Link to the news article here.
Also, undergraduate researcher Izzy Weigand was also featured in the latest ME-TACF newsletter, measuring wild American chestnut in Maine.