CEPCEB Young Researchers Receive Awards!
The ninth annual CEPCEB Special Award Ceremony was held on December 16, 2011 from 2-4pm in the Genomics Auditorium. The following individuals were acknowledged by the Center for Plant Cell Biology for their outstanding research achievements in the 2010-11 period:
| 2011 Outstanding CEPCEB Undergraduate Student | 2011 Outstanding CEPCEB Graduate Student | 2011 Outstanding CEPCEB Postdoctoral Fellow |
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| MATTHEW ALPERT Computer Science & Eng. Mentor: S. Lonardi |
GREGORY BARDING Chemistry Mentor:s C. Larive, J. Bailey-Serres |
HUANBIN ZHOU Plant Pathology & Microbiology Mentor: W. Ma |
- Huanbin Zhou (postdoctoral fellow award, Wenbo Ma lab, Plant Pathology & Microbiology Department)
- Gregory Barding (graduate student award, Cynthia Larive lab, Chemistry Department)
- Matthew Alpert (Neil Campbell undergraduate student award, Stefano Lonardi lab, Computer Science & Engineering Department)
The Center for Plant Cell Biology Award Fund was established in 2002 to provide annual awards in recognition of research excellence in areas of plant cell and molecular biology, genomics, chemistry and bioinformatics by pre-college students, undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers. The Award Fund also sponsors an annual special seminar and awards ceremony where an invited prominent scientist presents his or her work.
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| ROB MARTIENSSEN Professor, HHMI/GBMF Investigator Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory New York |
This year the invited 2011 Noel Keen Lecturer was Rob Martienssen, a Professor and HHMI/GBMF Investigator at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. Dr. Martienssen's research focuses on unraveling epigenetic mechanisms, which help control how genes work. He is an expert on the methylation of transposable elements in plant genomes and has also developed reverse genetics strategies using transposons in maize and Arabidopsis that have become powerful and widely used tools in plant genetics research.
The CEPCEB Awards have a monetary value of $500 each, and awardees' names are posted on the website and added to a permanent plaque inscribed with the names of the CEPCEB lecturer and awardees each year.