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Plant Ecophysiologist AND Fellow at Institute for Genomic Biology, UIUC
Incoming Assistant Professor at School of Integrative Plant Sciences, Cornell CALS
Mom | Daughter of an Indian farmer


At the 'PlantingScience F2 Fellow Program 2023 (Missouri Botanical Garden)' aimed at promoting plant-based learning at K12 levels by establishing a student-teacher-scientist partnership. Check out https://plantingscience.org/ to join as a volunteer and/or know more about work done by the 'PlantingScience' community to tackle "Plant Awareness Disparity".

National University of Singapore undergrads on a visit to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The students were very excited to learn that 'stomata' can help us improve crop water-use efficiency.
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