Tanja Pyhäjärvi, currently a postdoc at the University of Oulu, will be joining the lab this August to work on popgen of teosinte. Tanja won a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship from the Suomen Akatemia (Academy of Finland).

Dianne Velasco, currently a Staff Research Associate at the USDA ARS Germplasm Repository here in Davis, will be starting her PhD in the Genetics Grad Group this Fall. Dianne will likely be working on the evolution of one of several tree crops housed at the repository.