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2016 IS-MPMI XVII Congress Awardees Announced

2016 IS-MPMI XVII Congress Awardees Announced

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

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