Thank you to all ARSX2024 finalists for your well-presented pitches at today’s pitch event.
For those that couldn't tune in to today’s Final Event & Awardee Announcement, after a truly close deliberation session, judges selected the following three teams to be awarded a $100,000 prize to further their research and development, in conjunction with the insights gleaned from this experience:
Diverse Genes, Robust Crops: Fortifying the Future
Team Members - Rachel Naegele, Lina Quesada, Lindsey Thiessen, Amanda Hulse-Kemp, Kevin Dorn, Kevin Childs, Chris Richards, Justin Vaughn, Gina Brown-Guedira, Camilo Parada Rojas, Alex Cornwall, Robert Krueger
Safeguarding Germplasm in Admixture Seed Libraries
Team Members - Chris Gottschalk, Chris Dardick, Gennaro Fazio, Ben Gutierrez, Lauren Whitt
Crowdsource Characterization for Genetic Resources
Team Members - Sarah Dohle, Becky Povilus, Nico Enjalbert, Yu Ma
