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Walter De Jong

Walter grew up in Eastern Canada. Although surrounded by potatoes and potato people throughout his childhood, Walter only realized midway through graduate school because growing potatoes in his garden was so much fun! that he wanted to become a potato scientist like his father. Walter is an Associate Professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, where he oversees both an applied potato breeding program and a potato molecular genetics laboratory. He and his wife, Darlene, have two children.