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Marc van Iersel visited Utah State University and Apogee Instruments in Logan, UT. He was invited by the Department of Plants, Soils, and Climate to give a seminar about his research on the efficiency of lighting in controlled environment agriculture. The seminar was sponsored by Campbell Scientific and Apogee Instruments. You can watch the seminar…
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Candidus Inc., a company co-founded by Drs. Marc van Iersel and Erico Mattos was featured in UGA’s columns newspaper and on-line. The story discusses the role of UGA’s Innovation Gateway in helping to get Candidus, Inc. off the ground. Innovation Gateway focuses on transferring technologies developed at UGA into the marketplace. Candidus, Inc. was founded…
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Dr. Marc van Iersel, who heads up UGA’s horticultural physiology lab, has been named the 2018 recipient of the Porter Henegar Memorial Award by the Southern Nursery Association! Here is the press release from the Southern Nursery Association: Marc van Iersel was born in the Netherlands and exposed to horticulture at a young age, playing…
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Marc van Iersel has been named the ‘Dooley Professor’ in the Department of Horticulture. The Vincent J. Dooley professorship was established by the UGA athletic foundation in honor of former UGA football coach and athletic director Vince ‘Coach’ Dooley. Coach Dooley is an avid gardener and supporter of the horticulture department. This endowed chair is…
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Shuyang Zhen will officially receive her PhD at the end of this semester, but she has already completed her dissertation and defended it successfully. On top of that, she has published one paper from her PhD work, with a second one in press, and a third paper currently under review. Shuyang said goodbye to the rest…
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The horticultural physiology lab is part of a team of UGA faculty that was awarded a presidential seed grant. This is a new UGA program that funds trans-disciplinary projects aimed at solving the grand challenges facing our society. The horticultural physiology lab will participate in a project titled ‘Cost-effective indoor food production through the integration…
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The Horticultural Physiology Lab has received a $60,000 grant from the Georgia Research Alliance to continue our collaboration with Dr. Mark Haidekker’s photonics lab in UGA’s College of Engineering, and PhytoSynthetix. This long-standing collaboration is focused on the development of energy-efficient, cost-effective methods for supplemental lighting in controlled environment agriculture. We focus on integrating plant physiology and…
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