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Chumley Receives International Wheat Genome Sequencing Award
USAgNet - 02/23/2017
At the Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG) in San Diego, the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) presented Forrest Chumley with a Certificate of Appreciation for his vision and 10 years of dedication to and support of the
IWGSC.
Forrest Chumley, a veteran of the agricultural biotechnology industry, spent more than thirsty years in research and business leadership roles with Heartland Plant Innovations, DuPont Company, K-State Research and Extension, and Edenspace Systems
Corporation. Chumley is currently a Senior Advisor on science and special projects with Heartland Plant Innovations.
At the award ceremony, IWGSC Executive Director Kellye Eversole said, "to launch an international consortium that will survive beyond the first couple of years requires vision and determination. This is what Forrest Chumley brought to the IWGSC." She went
on recalling the early years of Chumley, when he arrived at Kansas State University (KSU) after working for Dupont, and "could not believe that the bread wheat genome was not being sequenced."
Through his persuasiveness at KSU and in discussions with the Kansas Wheat Commission, Chumley secured the funding to hire Kellye Eversole to establish a sequencing consortium and launch a coordinated, international effort to sequence the wheat genome
and design a strategic roadmap to ensure that the resulting sequence was of high quality. Eversole was kin to emphasize that "had this not occurred, it is unlikely that the IWGSC would have been able to provide resource after resource and, ultimately, a high
quality sequence to the international wheat community."
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