Completed my teaching observations. Be patient with your educators. The challenges and technology are changing daily. They are updating lesson plans on the fly when programs that were compatible yesterday, aren’t today.

When you’ve been begging your wheat plots to produce heads all summer and NOW they decide to head and flower, when there isn’t time to mature before frost. 🙄

Can’t decide if my favorite perk of working from home is that I can work wearing pajamas or that the snacks are so much better. Today, we’re making nachos🎉💃🏼

Threshing can get kind of lonely. Brought a friend today. Unfortunately, he insists on trying to eat the awns. Would not recommend as a threshing partner. 😕

I said “this is too many hits!” in regards to a BLAST search. Fiancé thought I was overwhelmed by the quality of his playlist 🎵

Join us on 11 March at 11am EST for a webinar on disease resistance mechanisms in wheat presented by Justin Faris Faris Lab . Information & registration register.gotowebinar.com/register/48545…

Happy #cdnagday2021! Thankful for the tractor ride alongs, morning chores, bottle babies, calving and harvest seasons my family shared with me. Decided to study nectrotrophic fungal pathogens in wheat while harvesting wheat with my uncle in Manitoba.

New foster kittens know just where to pose❤️

My dad teaches a 2.5 hr capstone class over dinner time. Students were getting hangry and rushing through their work to go eat dinner. So, he is making the class dinner. This week was stew and 🥖. Everyone stayed the whole class. Proud of all he does to help his students succeed!

#PAGXXIX is now virtual and the #IWGSC workshop will take place as planned 🗓️ Saturday 8 January ⏲️ 8:00 to 10:10am PST (11:00am to 1:10pm EST) 👉 Agenda wheatgenome.org/Meetings-and-W… Registered attendees will receive an email on how the virtual conference format will work.

The Faris lab in conjunction with other USDA and NDSU wheat breeders and pathologists are currently looking for a postdoc to work on bacterial leaf streak in wheat. Please RT. wheat.pw.usda.gov/GG3/content/po…

Most plants contain resistance genes that recognize pathogens and protect plants from developing disease but ARS scientists discovered a new gene may hijack wheat's ability to fight disease. Read more in the first part of our “Fungus Series” loom.ly/ciBRY6s #DiscoverARS

Great to share progress on this project. Glad to hear current research on Septoria nodorum blotch in wheat at the Foliar Disease Complexes of Cereals Symposium. #fdcc

I’ve developed KASP that are 99-100% accurate when predicting insensitivity to ToxA in durum and bread wheat. Please reach out if you want to use these markers to reduce tan spot, septoria blotch, and spot blotch susceptibility. Faris Lab

Excited to announce a new ORISE Post-Doc Fellowship opportunity in my lab: "USDA-ARS Fellowship on Improvement of Disease Resistance in Spring Oat Using Genomics and Phenomics". Includes healthcare + $5k relocation allowance. Find out more & apply here: zintellect.com/Opportunity/De…

A great open-access resource!🌾🧬 R genes are valuable targets for crop improvement.📚 Our chapter, “Rapid cloning of disease resistance genes in wheat” reviews resources and methods used to identify and validate candidate genes. Faris Lab