The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2017 awards, which honor excellence in research, education, outreach, and service.
ASPB Innovation Prize for Agricultural Technology
Luca Comai, University of California, Davis, CA
Rick DeRose, Syngenta Crop Protection, Research Triangle Park, NC
Georges Freyssinet, BIO-EZ, France
Ganesh Kishore, Creve Coeur, Missouri, MO
Stephen R. Padgette, Paine Schwartz Partners, San Mateo, CA
David Stalker, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT), Australia
Blake Meyers, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO & University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Charles Reid Barnes Life Membership Award
Susanne Von Caemmerer, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT Australia
Julia Santiago Cuellar, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Eric E. Conn Young Investigator Award
Prateek Tripathi, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
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 Kliebenstein, 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
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
