Three IIGB/CEPCEB members and faculty in the Botany & Plant Sciences department, Susan Wessler, Sean Cutler, and Linda Walling, were just announced as winners of major awards from the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB), making UC Riverside the only university in the country to receive so many honors. Susan Wessler, a Distinguished Professor of...
The 8th Annual CEPCEB Awards Ceremony and Noel Keen Lecture will be on Friday, October 15th from 2-4pm in the Genomics Building Auditorium (Rm 1102). The 2010 Noel T. Keen Lecturer will be Philip Benfey, a National Academy of Sciences member and Paul Kramer Professor and Chair of the Biology Department at Duke University. Dr...
The eighth annual CEPCEB Special Award Ceremony was held on October 15th, 2010 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 2009-10 period: Angelika Mustroph (postdoctoral fellow award, Julia Bailey-Serres lab) Tongda Xu (graduate student award, Zhenbiao Yang...
A paper co-authored by two IIGB faculty members, Tao Jiang and Thomas Girke, and CEPCEB IGERT graduate student Yiqun Cao appearing in the April 2010 issue of Bioinformatics has been selected for the Faculty of 1000 Biology site. Faculty of 1000 Biology is an award-winning online service that highlights and evaluates the most interesting papers...
Research contribution by Sean Cutler, an IIGB and CEPCEB scientist, has been named by Science magazine as one of the top 10 breakthroughs of the year. In April 2009, Cutler showed how abscisic acid (ABA), a naturally-produced plant stress hormone, helps plants survive by inhibiting their growth in times of drought, research that has important...
Sue Wessler, an internationally recognized leader in the field of genetics and elected member to the National Academy of Sciences, has been appointed as a distinguished professor of genetics in the Botany & Plant Sciences department and Institute for Integrative Genome Biology (IIGB) at UCR. Professor Wessler’s pioneering work on the molecular biology and evolution...
Ecker is one of the nation’s leading authorities on the molecular biology and genetics of plants. Ecker was a principal investigator in the multinational project that sequenced the genome of Arabidopsis thaliana, a model organism for the study of plant genetics. He is widely regarded as one of the foremost experts on how the gaseous...
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. 2009 Outstanding CEPCEB Undergraduate Student 2009...
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside now will be able to advance their work on sequencing the barley genome (complete genetic blueprint) and breeding new barley varieties thanks to a two-year $1 million grant they received from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (USDA/CSREES). To sequence the barley...
