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From late September until mid-December 2025, PhD student Zsa Zsa Boyny from JLU's second IRTG student cohort spent three months at the University of Queensland in the research group of Prof. Mark Cooper, under the supervision of Dr. Owen Powell. During her exchange, Zsa Zsa advanced her simulation work modeling the impact of increased recombination on breeding outcomes, expanding it from purely additive models. She especially benefited from Owen's close supervision and his ex

PhD student Charlotte Häuser from JLU's Department of Genetics of Crop Diversity is spending three months at the University of Queensland from September to December 2025, conducting research with the team of Dr. Millicent Smith. Millicent's research focuses on understanding the physiological mechanisms that underpin yield stability and quality in grain legumes — a perfect match for Charlotte's work in Germany on yield stability in faba bean under heat and drought stress. This

PhD student Uche Joshua Okoye from the Department of Biometry and Population Genetics at JLU Giessen is undertaking his lab exchange at the University of Queensland from September to December 2025. During his time at UQ he is working under the supervision of Prof. David Jordan, who leads the sorghum breeding and genetics programme at the Hermitage Research Facility in Warwick and is affiliated with the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI). Joshua’s