{"id":15954,"date":"2024-04-17T16:38:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T20:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/?p=15954"},"modified":"2024-04-17T16:38:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T20:38:42","slug":"early-career-scientist-spotlight-savannah-beyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/2024\/04\/17\/early-career-scientist-spotlight-savannah-beyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Career Scientist Spotlight | Savannah Beyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Savannah Beyer is a member of\u00a0 the Weng lab<\/a><\/strong> at the USDA ARS Vegetable Crops Research Unit (VCRU) in the Department of Plant and Agroecology Sciences at the University of Wisconsin \u2013 Madison.<\/p>\n

\"Savannah<\/p>\n

Introduce yourself\u2014your background, where you are now, and your current research focus.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I started working in a USDA lab as an undergraduate working on genes associated with malting quality in barley. After receiving my master’s degree where I studied wheat roots, I searched for a job in plant breeding and genetics and applied as a technician to the cucumber research program. Since I began two years ago, I have worked on disease resistance genes, integrating more efficient phenotyping methods, and I introduced KASP genotyping to our program.<\/p>\n

Why did you choose to work with Cucurbits, plant breeding, plant pathology, genomics, horticulture, agricultural economics or crop production?<\/strong>
\nI love science and I love food. Plant breeding and genetics is the intersection of these two passions.<\/p>\n

What do you hope to accomplish during your time working on the CucCAP grant, and what do you most look forward to in this position?<\/strong>
\nI hope to contribute to the successful generation of disease resistant cucumber cultivars. I look forward to helping discover new sources of disease resistance.<\/p>\n

Please provide a brief description of your research.
\n<\/strong>I am working on screening lines for disease resistance, introgression of disease resistance genes, and genotyping for disease resistance genes.<\/p>\n

What is your favorite crop?<\/strong>
\nOf course, my favorite crop is cucumber. Cucumber is an excellent species for genetic studies because of the short generation time and relatively small genome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Savannah Beyer is a member of\u00a0 the Weng lab at the USDA ARS Vegetable Crops Research Unit (VCRU) in the Department of Plant and Agroecology Sciences at the University of Wisconsin \u2013 Madison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[589,609,460],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15954"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15954"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15960,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15954\/revisions\/15960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}