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Top Scientists of 2011

At the ARS Annual Recognition Program on June 12, 2012, held in Beltsville, Maryland, geneticist Edward S. Buckler was honored as the ARS Distinguished Senior Research Scientist of the Year for 2011. Dr. Buckler is a plant geneticist in the ARS Plant, Soil and Nutrition Research Unit in Ithaca, New York.

The award for Herbert L. Rothbart Outstanding Early Career Research Scientist was presented to Christina L. Swaggerty, a microbiologist in ARS' Food and Feed Safety Research Unit , in College Station, Texas.

In the two videos below, Drs. Buckler and Swaggerty describe their work.

Ed Buckler
(7 min. 25 sec.)

News release (6/12/12)
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Christina Swaggerty
(6 min. 05 sec.)

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