Mission: To develop strategies promoting and enhancing plant breeding education, training, awareness, and funding to foster a future workforce for sustainable global plant breeding. To address the educational gap for the generational relief (between Uni grads and working breeders).
Leadership Structure: The Education Committee consists of three officers (chair, vice-chair, secretary), with each position serving for one year. At the annual meeting, the vice-chair assumes leadership, the secretary promotes to the vice-chair, and a new secretary is elected. Serving on the Education Committee leadership is a three-year commitment, with all positions serving on a voluntary basis.
NAPB Education Committee (2022-2023)
Chair – Clayton Carley, Corteva, https://www.linkedin.com/in/claytoncarley/
Vice Chair – Sarah Jones, BASF, https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-jones-ag2014/
Secretary – Nattalie Ramirez, Bayer, https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalie-ramirez-892b50159/
Past Chair – Lance Merrick, Corteva, htts://www.linkedin.com/in/lance-merrick-77a923140/
Major Activities:
- Host monthly conference calls consisting of leadership and volunteer members to discuss committee business
- Organize and host annual webinar series, discussing educational plant breeding topics
- Review graduate student abstracts and select student speakers and posters for annual meeting
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Organize poster judging and select awardees at annual meeting.
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Host and organize the Breeding Bites Podcast.
Listen or Watch our Podacast - NAPB Breeding Bites
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL28hZS0lTisE2D_As98LD-fCRHVjS2zsz