Kellye Eversole interview in “Women in Agriculture: Fourth Edition”

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This interview was originally published in “Women in Agriculture: Fourth Edition” and is reproduced here with permission of the authors. Women in Agriculture is a publication launched by Global BioAg Linkages in 2019 to highlight the achievements and various roles of women in agriculture, especially in the BioAgriculture segment. Kellye Eversole is President of Eversole […]

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From academia to industry – An interview with Dr Catherine Feuillet

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Interview conducted and written by Modesta Abugu. Dr. Catherine has been the Chief Scientist Officer of Inari Agriculture since 2018. Before taking up this role, she was the head of trait research at Bayer Crop Science. She has also spent 20 years in academic research where she led projects and teams at universities and governmental research

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A strong will to continue growing – An Interview with Dr. Ivone de Bem Oliveira

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A strong will to continue growing – An Interview with Dr. Ivone de Bem Oliveira Interview conducted and written by Modesta Abugu Dr. Ivone de Bem Oliveira is from Santa Catarina in Brazil. She received her PhD in 2018 from the department of Genetics and Plant Breeding at the Federal University of Goias and is currently

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An inspiring career in public service – An interview with Dr. Chavonda Jacobs-Young

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Interview conducted and written by Modesta Abugu Dr. Chavonda Jacobs-Young is the administrator of the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS). She obtained her Ph.D. at North Carolina State University in Paper Science and Engineering and spent about 6 years teaching and researching at the University of Washington before joining the USDA in 2002. In 2014, she became

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An Interview with an outstanding early career scientist, Dr. Philippa Borrill

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Interview conducted and written by Modesta Abugu Dr. Philippa Borrill is a lecturer in Plant Biology at the University of Birmingham (UK). She carried out her undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge. She obtained her PhD from the John Innes Centre working in the labs of Professor Cristobal Uauy and Professor Alison Smith on a

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Remembering Mary Clutter

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Women scientists and the genomics community lost a long-time advocate on 9 December 2019 when Dr. Mary E. Clutter passed away. She was a prominent advocate for women in science throughout her career and a founding member of the annual Women in Genomics dinner. She frequently said “there is nothing that cannot be solved when

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Talking Biotech Podcast

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An Interview with Kellye Eversole Like many areas of science, the early days of genomics quickly became a male-dominated discipline. While more women were earning advanced degrees and training in this area, fewer were finding a place in faculty and other leadership positions. Kellye Eversole and others developed a group to advance networking channels, provide

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