Following the 2016 IS-MPMI XVII Congress, several awardees were announced. IS-MPMI would like to congratulate the 2016 IS-MPMI Awardee, Sharon Long, a Professor of Biology at Stanford University. She received her Bachelor’s degree from the California Institute of Technology, and carried out her Ph.D. studies at Yale University, studying plant development with Ian Sussex. As a postdoctoral fellow she trained with Fred Ausubel at Harvard, where she began her work on Rhizobium-legume symbiosis. She joined the Stanford faculty in 1982. Her research group employs a spectrum of approaches, including microbial and plant molecular biology, biochemistry and genetics, to study the symbiosis of Rhizobium bacteria and plant hosts. They are especially interested in the signals and signal transduction pathways used by nitrogen-fixing bacteria and plants.
The new IS-MPMI Young Investigator Award for 2016 was given to Dong Wang, a faculty member of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Wang received his Ph.D. training with Dr. Xinnian Dong at Duke University, and conducted postdoctoral research with Dr. Sharon Long at Stanford University. Currently he studies the symbiotic interactions between plants and beneficial microbes.
IS-MPMI would also like to recognize all of the 2016 Ko Shimamoto Travel Awardees, who received funding to attend the XVII Congress. Congratulations to the following individuals:
Hiroaki Adachi
Kwasi Adusei Fosu
Beverly Agtuca
Akira Akamatsu
Gazala Ameen
Brenden Barco
Teura Barff
Maël Baudin
Ana Bossa-Castro
Maryn Carlson
Meltem Cavdar
Hao-Xun Chang
David Cook
Kevin Cope
Gayani Ekanayake
Laura Fleites
Jose Fonseca
Barbara Franco
Julie Gervais
Mrunmay Kumar Giri
Bruna Goncalves Coutinho
Alex Greenspan
Susanna Harris
Volker Hegenauer
Matthew Helm
Sarah Hind
John Steen Hoyer
Shuai Huang
Carol Ibe
Sergey Ivanov
Anna Joe
Ryan Kessens
Jixiang Kong
Arun Kumar
Thomas Liebrand
Xiaoyu Liu
Chenglong Liu
Fabien Lonjon
Juan Sebastian Lopez Fernández Fondazione
Tiffany Lowe-Power
Yan Ma
Ka-Wai Ma
Paolo Margaria
Alfredo Mari
Margarita Marroquin-Guzman
Kaitlin McNally
Marco Mechan Llontop
Samriti Midha
Mina Ohtsu
Onur Oztas
Yohann Petit
Priya Pimprikar
Sowmya Ramachandran
Jeannette Rapicavoli
Fernanda Raquel Rezende de Castro Moretti
Robyn Roberts
Joren Jeico Cruz Salazar
Benjamin Schwessinger
Aldo Luis Seguel
Joji Grace Sernestrand
Teja Shidore
Martin Stegmann
Tongjun Sun
Marcella Alves Teixeira
Jessie Uehling
Hester Van Schalkwyk
Chih-Hang Wu
Wenjun Xie
Li Zhang
Xiaoxiao Zhang