{"id":8803,"date":"2024-10-14T16:50:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T16:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/?p=8803"},"modified":"2024-10-14T16:50:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T16:50:41","slug":"introduction-shelby-gillis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/introduction-shelby-gillis\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction &#8211; Shelby Gillis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hey everyone! My name is Shelby Gillis and I am a junior majoring in Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology. I grew up on a corn and soybean farm in a small town north of Muncie, IN called Eaton. Growing up on a farm, I have always had a passion for agriculture. I knew I wanted to be involved in it in some way and so Purdue was a simple decision! I started at Purdue as a pre-vet major and quickly discovered that that was not my passion. My older brother told me about the major Plant Genetics, Breeding, and Biotechnology in the agronomy department and I was sold!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Apart from Agronomy Ambassadors, I am also an ambassador for the college of agriculture, and I am in Delight Ministries. I also work in Dr Cankui Zhang&#8217;s research lab working with quinoa doing transformations and working with tissue culture. When I am not working with or studying plants, I love to work with pigs, read, and bake. I cannot wait to connect with new students and promote the department of agronomy!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everyone! My name is Shelby Gillis and I am a junior majoring in Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology. I grew up on a corn and soybean farm in a small town north of Muncie, IN called Eaton. Growing up on a farm, I have always had a passion for agriculture. I knew I wanted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogposts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8808,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8803\/revisions\/8808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}