b'USDA-ARS Hires New Potato Physiologistfor Fargo Research Unitcontrolled environmental condi- Scientistandhadanacademictions.Incollaborationwith appointmentasanAssistantother researchers in the unit, she ProfessorattheUniversityofalsoinvestigatedmolecular South Dakota, Sanford School ofmechanisms regulating seed dor- Medicine,Departmentofmancy,crop-weedinteractions, InternalMedicine(SiouxFalls,alternativegrowthpatternsof South Dakota).pathogensinresponsetoenvi-ronment,andtranscriptome On April 27th 2020, she joinedanalysesofpotentialwinter theUSDA-ARS,Sugarbeetandcovercropsfornortherncli- PotatoResearchUnitinFargo,mates. North Dakota as a Research PlantPhysiologisttoworkonpost-TheNPPGAwouldliketowel- In2017,shejoinedSanford- harvest physiology of potato.comeDr.MunevverDogramaci Imagenetics,asaClinicalStafftotheSugarbeetandPotatoResearchUnitinFargo!Dr.DogramaciisournewPotatoPhysiologist.Munevver Dogramaci earned herPh.D.inNaturalandAppliedSciences through an internation-alcollaborativeprogram(CukurovaUniversity,Adana,Turkey and the USDA-ARS CerealCropsResearchUnitinFargo,North DakotaDuringherpost-doctoralworkshe utilized omics approaches toidentifymolecularmechanismsassociatedwithmeristemdor-mancy,vegetativereproductionandfloweringunderfieldandJULY/AUGUST 2020 POTATO GROWER 29'