Congratulations to Associate Professor Caroline Roper, who is PI on a new 5-year $10M US Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture ECDRE grant! Professor Jason Stajich from our department is Co-PI. Other investigators from UCR include Danelle Seymour, Philippe Rolshausen and Ashraf el-Kereamy (Lindcove). The start date of the grant is 9/1/2020.