Faculty from Lavras, Brazil visit the OPGC

July 17, 2015

A group of faculty from the Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA) in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, paid a visit to the OPGC and The Ohio State University to discuss mutual interests in research and educational activities.  The OPGC has hosted various visiting scholar students from UFLA and the visitors had an opportunity to meet the various students from Lavras currently on campus.  The visiting faculty were: Dr. Patricia Duarte de Oliveira Paiva, current chair of the Department of Crop Science and an expert on floriculture and landscape design; Dr. Maria Laene Moreira de Carvalho, also a professor in the Department of Crop Science and a leader of the Seed Science group; Dr. Renato Paiva, professor in the Department of Biology and an expert on plant tissue culture and cryopreservation; Dr. Thelma Safadi, a professor in the Department of Exact Sciences who specializes in statistics.