NEWS RELEASE ASPB
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 28, 2017
CONTACT: Sylvia Lee,
Executive and Governance Affairs Administrator
slee@aspb.org, (301) 296-0898
ASPB Names 2017 Award Recipients
Honors to be presented at Plant Biology 2017, in Honolulu, HI
ROCKVILLE, MD - The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2017 awards, which honors excellence in research, education, outreach, and service.
ASPB Innovation Prize for Agricultural Technology
Luca Comai, University of California, Davis, CA
Rick DeRose, Syngenta Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC
Georges Freyssinet, BIO-EZ, France
Ganesh Kishore, Creve Coeur, Missouri, MO
Stephen R. Padgette, Paine & Partners, New York, NY
David Stalker, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT), Australia
Charles Albert Shull Award
Blake Meyers, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO & University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Charles Reid Barnes Life Membership Award
Susanne Van Caemmerer, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT Australia
Early Career Award
Julia Santiago Cuellar, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Eric E. Conn Young Investigator Award
Prateek Tripathi, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
Excellence in Education Award
Sarah Wyatt, Ohio University, Athens, OH
Fellow of ASPB Award
Jim Birchler, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Ed Cahoon, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Anja Geitmann, McGill University, Montréal, Canada
Maureen Hanson, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Gregg Howe, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Joe Kieber, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Dan Kleibenstein, University of California, Davis, CA
J. Clark Lagarias, University of California, Davis, CA
Cathie Martin, John Innes Institute & University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
Blake Meyers, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO & University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Eran Pichersky, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Daniel Schachtman, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
David Smyth, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Dan Szymanski, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Rita Varagona, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO
Rick Vierstra, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Martin Gibbs Medal
Ralph Bock, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany
Stephen Hales Prize
Julia Bailey-Serres, University of California, Riverside, CA
Corresponding Membership Nominees
Corresponding Member status is conferred by election on the Society's annual ballot. This honor, initially given in 1932, provides life membership to distinguished plant biologists outside the United States. The following individuals have been nominated this year:
John R. Evans, Australian National University,Canberra, ACT Australia
Ian Max Møller, Aarhus University, Denmark
Ekkehard Neuhaus, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
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ASPB is a professional scientific society, headquartered in Rockville, MD, that is devoted to the advancement of the plant sciences worldwide. With a membership of some 4,000 plant scientists from throughout the United States and around the world, the Society self-publishes two of the most widely cited plant science journals, The Plant Cell and Plant Physiology , and in partnership with SEB and Wiley has recently launched Plant Direct. For more information about ASPB, please visit http://www.aspb.org. Also follow ASPB on Facebook at facebook.com/myASPB and on Twitter @ASPB.
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