PhD - University of Delaware; MS - UNC Wilmington
Heather moved into a Research Associate position in 2023 and is a leading member of the Breeding Insight OnRamp project. She continues to serve as the Citrus Coordinator for Breeding Insight OnRamp. She has a Masters in Biology from The University of North Carolina in Wilmington and a Ph.D. in Plant and Soil Sciences from The University of Delaware. During her doctoral studies, she focused on the problem of maintaining yields despite challenges caused by population growth and climate change by incorporating novel genetic diversity in maize. By evaluating the genomic response to selection for flowering time in a maladapted, tropical population of maize (a potential source of genetic diversity) using approaches she developed for genotyping and assessing haplotype reconstruction in highly heterozygous populations, she contributed to knowledge needed to develop more efficient pre-breeding strategies for maladapted material.
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