Our colleague, professor and researcher Isabel Díaz Rodríguez, is retiring at the end of July. From the Center for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics (CBGP), a joint center of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) and the National Institute of Statistics and CSIC (INIA-CSIC), her colleagues wanted to express their sincere gratitude for her commitment, excellence, and dedication over all these years with a surprise party.