Congratulations to James Glover for winning the Best PhD Presentation prize (again!) for his talk at the Insect Research and Control Conference at the 2018 Beltwide Cotton Conference. James’ talk was titled “Pathogenicity and Transmission of Cotton Seed & Boll Rotting Bacteria Vectored by the Verde Plant Bug”. This was James’ second win, having taken the first place prize in the same competition two years ago at the 2016 Beltwide Conference.

Members of the Sword Lab have won the award five of the six last years!

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The lab is off to a great start for the Fall 2017 semester welcoming Loren Rivera-Vega as a postdoc, Janaina Câmara (PhD student), Kristin Hamons (MS student) and Jon Hernandez (Research Asst.). We are also happy to have undergraduates Connor Purcell and Malissa Klemp joining Kayleigh Boll, Sean Keegan, Allison Lazear and Manuel Ramirez in the lab as members of what we affectionately refer to as “Polly’s Army”.

Greg received an Excellence in Innovation Award from Texas A&M Technology Commercialization. See full story here.

Tyler and Greg take the fight for applied microbiology to the streets! Thanks to everyone around the world who turned out for the March for Science on Earth Day 2017.

Congratulations to Tyler Raszick for winning the Best PhD Student Presentation prize at the 18th Annual Ecological Integration Symposium at Texas A&M!