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Thomas Spencer

July 7, 2020

Thomas Spencer Receives 2020 President’s Award for Sustained Career Excellence
The Mizzou National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) team recently had several members earn awards and scholarships during the 2020 NAMA Student Marketing Competition and Conference. This photo was taken in early March while the Mizzou NAMA team pitched its product to the MoKan NAMA Chapter and networked with the K-State NAMA team. Photo courtesy of the Mizzou NAMA team.

June 30, 2020

Deserved Recognition

June 23, 2020

MU Faculty Part of Gene Editing Task Force
Recently, three CAFNR professors, in the area of plant biology, were honored with Extraordinary Professor appointments in the Department of Biotechnology at UWC – Bob Sharp, Curators’ Distinguished Professor in the Division of Plant Sciences and director of the Interdisciplinary Plant Group (IPG); David Mendoza-Cózatl, associate professor in the Division of Plant Sciences; and Scott Peck, professor in the Department of Biochemistry.

June 22, 2020

An Extraordinary Honor
Kamal Yadav, middle, pictured during the 2019 College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR) Column Award for Distinguished Alumni award night. Yadav is pictured with CAFNR Vice Chancellor and Dean Christopher Daubert (left) and Michael Chapman, chair of the Department of Biochemistry.

June 22, 2020

An Entrepreneurial Spirit
Matthew Lucy

June 15, 2020

Matthew Lucy Receives ADSA Award of Honor
Teresa Davis

June 11, 2020

Q&A With Teresa Davis
Robert Sites demonstrates his famous juggling of elephant dung during the Thailand Study Abroad program. Sites has led the program for 14 straight years, and was one of two Mizzou professors to earn the inaugural MU Study Abroad Teaching Excellence Award in 2020.

June 8, 2020

An Educational Experience
Researchers at the University of Missouri and the University of Georgia recently published a paper related to an underutilized source of resistance in the soybean genotype Peking. That source is linked to two polymorphisms in serine hydroxyl-methyltransferase 8 (SHMT8). SHMT is an enzyme important for folate-mediated 1-carbon metabolism, a universal metabolic process. David Korasick, a postdoctoral fellow who was part of the John Tanner lab and mentored by Tanner, Lesa Beamer and Melissa Mitchum, produced five crystal structures of different states of the SHMT8 tetramers from the SCN-susceptible and SCN-resistant cultivar. He combined protein biochemistry, protein biophysics and X-ray crystallography approaches to tackle the problem.

June 3, 2020

Fighting a Financially Taxing Pathogen
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June 2, 2020

Harvey James Receives Richard P. Haynes Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award in Agriculture, Food, and Human Values