Fun Stuff

Finer Lab, Wooster, October 2011
Mike Horn and John at the 2011 SIVB meetings in Raleigh.		Paul Cristou, Ted Klein and John at the 2011 SIVB meetings in Raleigh.
Carlos and Fon, returning from a beaner meeting in Columbia, MO, March, 2011		Carola DeLa Torre Cuba and Mary-Dell Chilton deep in discussion in Research Triangle Park, NC, June, 2011
Zhifen Zhang and Carlos Hernandez with Roger Beachy at the 2010 SIVB/IAPB Meetings in St Louis		Bobby Smith with her student, John Finer and her grandstudents, Carlos Hernandez (L) and Zhifen Zhang (R) at the 2010 SIVB/IAPB Meetings in St Louis
The Beaners in OH in 2009		(L-R) John Finer, JC Jang, Marcelo Pomeranz (2010 Krauss Award Winner) and Steve Slack at the 2010 OARDC Annual Conference
John Finer and Rod Sharp, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2009		John on sabbatical in Mike Timko's Lab at the University of Virginia, 2008
John, Joe and Cheri		The Beaners in OH in 07
September 2006, Visiting EuiHo at Yeungnam University
EuiHo's last day in the FinerLab	Bobbi's retirement
John showing embryogenic soybean cultures to OSU President Gordon Gee and 1987 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Costa Rica President Oscar Arias Sanchez	John and OSU President Gordon Gee looking at picture at left ~18 years later (no kidding - déjà vu!)
Great food at Fifi's			Flowering banana tree regenerated from a somatic embryo, growing outside in Wooster, Ohio, where it gets cold!! Forgive the T-shirt
The lab folks and visitors (Ingo Potrykus on left) take a birding trip to Magee Marsh on Lake Erie	John getting an baseball autographed by 1970 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Norman Borlaug
Kids are such good sports!!	John with former Govenor George Voinovich and Janet
Yes, we are always this happy......	John on Channel 5
The lab takes a wine country tour. Eliane Santarem, John Finer, Harold Trick	Professor Trick enjoying a glass of the bubbly
The Early Days
John Finer, Aki Nagasawa, Barb Norris	L-R Back: John Finer, Tai-Sheng Cheng, Masood Hadi, Hong-Chang Ma Front: Cheri Nemes, Alex Gaponenko, Philippe Vain, Barb Norris
John Finer and Philippe Vain on the Golden Gate Bridge	The very early days - graduate school in Roberta Smith's laboratory at Texas A&M University