Jemanesh Kifetew Haile, from Ethiopia, earned a PhD working with Marion Roder at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics & Crop Plant Research, in Germany. Currently, she is a research officer in the Wheat Breeding and Genetics group of the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, where her work focuses on genomic selection and germplasm screening for Fusarium head blight resistance and other important diseases of wheat in Canada.