The seventh annual CEPCEB Special Award Ceremony was held on October 16th, 2009 from 2-4pm as the inaugural event in the Auditorium of the new UCR Genomics Building. The following individuals were acknowledged by the Center for Plant Cell Biology for their outstanding research achievements in the 2008-09 period.

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.