Mar 28, 2016 - NEWS FROM ASPB. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ... Bijay Singh, BASF Plant Science, Research Triangle Park. MariaE
NEWS FROM ASPB FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 28, 2016 CONTACT: Sylvia Lee, Executive and Governance Affairs Administrator
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ASPB Names 2016 Awards Recipients Honors to be presented at Plant Biology 2016 in Austin ROCKVILLE, MD - The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2016 awards, honoring excellence in research, education, outreach, and service. Adolph E. Gude, Jr., Award Joe Key, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia Charles Albert Shull Award Jiri Friml, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria Charles Reid Barnes Life Membership Award Karen Koch, University of Florida, Gainesville Charles F. Kettering Award David Kramer, Michigan State University, East Lansing Early Career Award Cora MacAlister, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Jin Suk Lee, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada Lawrence Bogorad Award for Excellence in Plant Biology Research Pal Maliga, Waksman Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway
Excellence in Education Award Candace Galen, University of Missouri, Columbia Fellow of ASPB Award C. Robin Buell, Michigan State University, East Lansing Kris Niyogi, University of California, Berkeley Bijay Singh, BASF Plant Science, Research Triangle Park MariaElena Zavala, California State University, Northridge Robert Rabson Award Xiaobo Li, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford Stephen Hales Prize Gloria Coruzzi, New York University, New York
Corresponding Membership Nominees Corresponding Member status is conferred by election on the annual ballot. This honor, initially given in 1932, provides life membership to distinguished plant biologists outside the United States. Ikuko Hara-Nishimura, Kyoto University, Japan
Jian Feng Ma, Okayama University, Japan Widmar Tanner, University of Regensburg, Germany ### ASPB is a professional scientific society, headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, devoted to the advancement of the plant sciences worldwide. With a membership of some 4,500 plant scientists from throughout the United States and around the world, the Society publishes two of the most widely cited plant science journals: The Plant Cell and Plant Physiology. 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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