Our NSF Predictive Plant Phenomics Program's research trainees met today to celebrate the end of the spring semester. Over lunch they each shared details about their research projects. The trainees who are members of our first graduate student cohort, starting at Iowa State in the fall of 2016, provided details of their research. Trainees who are members of our second student cohort, starting in the fall of 2017, shared an overview of each of their research rotation experiences.

2016 inaugural cohort of NRT Trainees:

• Ian Braun, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Katerina Holan, Plant Biology
• James McNellie, Genetics and Genomics
• Johnathon Shook, Plant Breeding
• Therin Young, Mechanical Engineering

2017 cohort of NRT Trainees:

• Clayton Carley, Genetics and Genomics
• Zachary Lozier, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Ashley Paulsen, Genetics and Genomics
• Arjun Sharma, Mechanical Engineering
• Lyle Sisson, Genetics and Genomics
• Schuyler Smith, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Paul Villanueva, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Pictured front row (l to r) Ashley Paulsen, Lyle Sisson, and Therin Young. Back row (l to r) Katerina
Holan, Arjun Sharma, Johnathon Shook, Zach Lozier, Paul Villanueva, Clayton Carley, Ian Braun, and
Schuyler Smith (not pictured: James McNellie)