Davis, California, USA
June 29, 2015

Last week, UC Davis European Plant Breeding AcademySM (PBA) graduated the third class with a session in Davis, California.  Over the last two years, during the six sessions held in Gent, Belgium; Angers, France; Gatersleben, Germany; Enkhuizen, The Netherlands; Barcelona, Spain, and UC Davis, nineteen participants in this class spent more than 300 hours in classes, workshops and the field, training towards the Plant Breeding Academy Certificate. 

UC Davis European Plant Breeding Academy Class III participants: 

• Amine Abbadi, Norddeutsche Pflanzenzucht Hans‐Georg Lembke KG, Germany
• Justus Boehm, Kartoffelzucht Boehm, Germany
• Estelle Bonleu, Pioneer DuPont, France
• Jordi Caujape, Semillas Fitó, Spain
• Jagdeep Cheema, Doctor Seeds, India
• Jan de Groot, Dialsoft Beheer B.V., Netherlands
• Miklós Fazekas, Alfaseed, Hungary
• Ersel Göroglu, Semillas Fitó, Turkey
• Hanna Haikka, Boreal Plant Breeding LTD, Finland 
• Jure Kolaric, Saatzucht Gleisdorf, Austria
• Erkan Konuk, MayAgro, Turkey
• Anders Soendergaard Larsen, DLF-Trifolium, Denmark
• Bert Lataire, Bayer CropScience, Belgium
• Volker Marwede, Norddeutsche Pflanzenzucht Hans‐Georg Lembke KG, Germany
• Malgorzata Niewińska, Danko Breeding Company, Poland
• Alexis Oger, Syngenta, France
• Franziska Roth, Bayer CropScience, Germany
• Simone Sendke, Monsanto, Germany
• Alexander Strube, Ackermann Saatzucht GmbH & Co. KG, Germany

The Plant Breeding Academy is a premium professional certificate program offered in the USA, Europe, Asia and Africa.  Nine classes offered worldwide since 2006 have been attended by 171 breeders from 44 countries, making the UC Davis Plant Breeding Academy (PBA) the most recognized program of its kind. 

The next class of the European Plant Breeding Academy starts in October 2015.  Registration is still open for the remaining few spots in the class.

For more information on the Plant Breeding Academy, please contact Joy Patterson at jpatterson@ucdavis.edu or visit http://pba.ucdavis.edu.

Website: http://www.ucdavis.edu

Published: June 29, 2015