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The
purpose of this site is to provide information to Peachtree Class of 1976
Alumni for the purpose of "reconnecting" with old friends, and to share
reunion plans.
Dr.Lewers has been with
the Fruit Lab since 2001, conducting research on strawberry,
blackberry, and raspberry. She serves as a Research Geneticist
(Plants) developing improved cultivars of these valuable fruit crops
while studying inheritance of important traits and developing
molecular markers and genetic maps to help track these traits in
breeding populations.
Her education was at Iowa State University in agronomy, integrated
pest management, plant breeding, and genetics. She conducted
research in Mendelian and cytogenetics as an undergraduate at Iowa
State University (1976-1979), in qualitative and quantitative
genetics and plant breeding as a graduate student at ISU
(1990-1996), in molecular and quantitative genetic mapping as a
postdoctoral research associate at ISU (1996-1998), in molecular
genetic and physical mapping and bioinformatics as a postdoctoral
molecular geneticist with the USDA-ARS in Beltsville, Maryland
(1998-2001), and in plant breeding, marker development, polysomic
inheritance, and genetic mapping as a Research Geneticist in the
Fruit Laboratory at BARC (2001-present).
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