Graduate Education 

I accept students through the following graduate groups:

• Genetics: Plant Breeding and Biodiversity Focus Group: PhD, MS; for focus on genetics and breeding theory
• Ecology: Agroecology Area of Emphasis: PhD, MS; for focus on biodiversity and genetic resources conservation, including interactions with human ecology
• Horticulture and Agronomy: PhD, MS: for focus on practical applications of genetics and breeding
• International Agricultural Development: MS only; for focus on developing country studies

For educational opportunities in plant breeding (in the broadest sense) at UC Davis, check the following pages:

Plant Breeding at UC Davis

Teaching

• Undergraduate:
• PLB143, Evolution of Crop Plants (every Spring quarter)
  
• PLB154, Introduction to Plant Breeding (Winter quarter 2006 only)
  
• FRS004-009, Freshman Seminar: Plants for People (Winter quarter)
  
• Guest lectures in:
• AMR110A, Temperate and Tropical Crops: Winter quarter
• "Plant breeding in crop improvement"
• First 9 slides (in .pdf format) (385 Ko)
• Next 9 slides (in .pdf format) (7,668 Ko)
• Next 23 slides (in .pdf format) (453 Ko)
• PLB152, Plant Genetics (Spring 2006)
  • "QTL mapping" (in .pdf format) (171 KB)
• PMB170 (UC Berkeley)
• "Are we going to lose the monarch butterflies? Environmental concerns associated with the use of transgenic crops"  (in .pdf format) (1,508 KB)
  
• Graduate:
• Guest lecture in:
• IAD202N, Analysis and Determinants of Farming Systems: Spring quarter
  
• Ecology Graduate Group, Agroecology Area of Emphasis:
  • ECL290-064 (Fall 2005)
    • Students - faculty advisors - papers to read