
Rachel Combs-Giroir
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Rachel Combs-Giroir
@RCombsGiroir
NSF Grad Fellow & Translational Plant Sciences PhD Candidate @TPS_OSU 🌱 | pennycress genetics 🧬 and abiotic stress tolerance 🌧️ | Mizzou Alum 🐯







Our second student speaker Rachel Combs-Giroir is giving talk on “Morphological and transcriptomic responses to waterlogging in Pennycress, a new biofuel cover crop”.










Happy to share I am starting a wine grape breeding program for the Mid-Atlantic/Virginia and be with amazing scientists @VitisGen @GrapeResearch @BMSBresearch @CiderappleDNA @reischnewyork

Check out what a few of our graduate students have been up to at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference (@PAGmeeting) in San Diego this week! Rachel & Cullen are both pursuing their PhD's under the advisement of Dr. Andrea Gschwend 📸: @RCombsGiroir #PAG30








Want to impact crop security in the face of climate change, contribute to genetic improvement of the next big biofuel crop & earn a grad degree? The Gschwend Lab is looking for a MS or PhD student to do just that! Contact Gschwend.2@osu.edu to learn more go.osu.edu/pennycressstre…









