(Press-News.org) The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2023 awards, which honor distinction in service, outreach, education, and research.
ASPB Innovation Prize for Agricultural Technology
Renata Bolognesi, Stanislaw Flasinski, Sergey Ivashuta, Daniel Kendrick, Curtis Scherder, Gerrit Segers
Bayer, Chesterfield, Missouri
Charles Albert Shull Award
José Dinneny
Stanford University, Stanford, California
Charles Reid Barnes Life Membership Award
John Browse
Washington State University, Pullman
Natasha Raikhel
University of California, Riverside
Early Career Award
Moisés Expósito-Alonso
Carnegie Institute of Science, Stanford University
Enid MacRobbie 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:
Avraham Levy
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Wataru Sakamoto
Okayama University, Japan
Eric E. Conn Young Investigator Award
Kadeem Gilbert
Michigan State University
Excellence in Education Award
Bonnie Bartel
Rice University, Houston, Texas
Fellow of ASPB Award
Magdalena Bezanilla
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Siobhan Brady
University of California, Davis
Z. Jeffrey Chen
University of Texas, Austin
Natalia Dudareva
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Jonathan Monroe
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia
Wayne Parrott
University of Georgia, Athens
Martin Gibbs Medal
Xuemei Chen
University of California, Riverside
Stephen Hales Prize
Keiko Torii
The University of Texas at Austin
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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 3,000 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, and co-publishes the Open Access journal Plant Direct. ASPB also hosts the annual Plant Biology conference; supports plant science outreach, engagement, and advocacy; and powers the Plantae digital ecosystem for plant scientists. For more information about ASPB, please visit https://aspb.org/. Also follow ASPB on Facebook at facebook.com/myASPB, on Twitter @ASPB, and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/98656.
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