Congratulations to ASPB’s 2025 Award Recipients

The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2025 awards, which honor distinction in service, outreach, education, and research.

Adolph E. Gude Jr. Award

  • Brian Larkins, University of Arizona, Tucson

ASPB Innovation Prize for Agricultural Technology

  • Marc Albertsen, Manjit Singh, Mark Williams, Corteva Agriscience, Johnston, Iowa

Charles Albert Shull Award

  • Patrick Shih, University of California, Berkeley

Charles Reid Barnes Life Membership Award

  • Sarah (Sally) Assmann, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
  • Mary Lou Guerinot, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

Enid MacRobbie Corresponding Membership Nominee

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 individual has been nominated this year:

  • Christine Raines, Essex University, Essex, United Kingdom

Eric E. Conn Yi Young Investigator Award

  • Kevin Cox, WashU/Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri

Excellence in Education Award

  • Amy Marshall-Colón, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Fellow of ASPB Award

  • Ivan Baxter, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri
  • Jeffrey Bennetzen, University of Georgia, Athens
  • Christoph Benning, Michigan State University, East Lansing
  • Aruna Kilaru, Eastern Tennessee State University, Johnson City
  • Gustavo MacIntosh, Iowa State University, Ames

Jane Silverthorne Early Career Award

  • Gozde Demirer, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

Martin Gibbs Medal

  • Mark Estelle, University of California San Diego, La Jolla

Stephen Hales Prize

  • Gary Stacey, University of Missouri, Columbia

Please join ASPB in celebrating this year’s award winners. Congratulations to all!

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