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:  Matthew Alpert, Computer Science & Eng., Mentor: S. Lonardi

2011 Outstanding CEPCEB Graduate Student: Gregory Barding, Chemistry, Mentors: C. Larive & J. Bailey-Serres

2011 Outstanding CEPCEB Postdoctoral Fellow: Huanbin Zhou, Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Mentor: W. Ma

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.

Keynote Speaker:  Rob Martienssen, Professor, HHMI/GBMF, Investigator, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York