<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">FHB Colleagues,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We hope everyone is having a great year. We wanted to make you aware of our August Featured Researcher post on the What’s Hot news feed of <a href="https://scabusa.org/" class="">ScabUSA</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Our current featured researcher is Dr. Katherine Frels. Dr. Frels is an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska. Her projects focus on breeding hard winter wheat and barley for FHB resistance and are funded under the Barley and Hard Winter Wheat Coordinated Projects.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please <a href="https://scabusa.org/featured-researcher-bio/Katherine-Frels" class="">learn more about Dr. Fels's research</a> and welcome her to the USWBSI.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is your research aligned with the mission of the U.S. Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative? The FY22 USWBSI Request for Pre-Proposals is now in progress. USWBSI is now accepting pre-proposals on the Electronic Pre-proposal Submission (EPS) System. Check out the details for the <a href="https://scabusa.org/research_rfp-fy22/Cat3" class="">FY22 USWBSI RFP under the Research Area Individual Projects Category</a> today! (All other categories required a Letter of Intent and are now closed.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Warm regards,</div><div class="">Amber</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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