By Subject Science and Technology UNC plant biologist wins two awards
| UNC plant biologist wins two awards |
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| Tuesday, April 21, 2009 | |||||
Dangl, the John N. Couch Professor of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, received the 2009 Stephen Hales Prize from the American Society of Plant Biologists. The award is named for Hales, a plant biologist and author of the 1727 book, “Vegetable Staticks.” Dangl also won the 2009 award from the International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions for his innovative research. Through his research studying the immune systems of plants, Dangl is addressing a pressing global problem: ensuring an adequate food supply. His work centers around the study of plant-pathogen interactions – discovering how to make plants more resistant to disease – using a small plant with a white flower, Arabidopsis thaliana, commonly called thale cress. The American Society of Plant Biologists, headquartered in Rockville, Md., has 5,000 members from the United States and about 60 other countries. The society publishes the two most frequently cited plant science journals, The Plant Cell and Plant Physiology. The International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions has members from more than 30 countries and publishes the journal, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. Dangl, who also is an associate director of the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences in 2007. He became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2004. Web sites: American Society of Plant Biologists: www.aspb.org International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions: www.ismpminet.org Dangl’s profile: www.bio.unc.edu/faculty/dangl College of Arts and Sciences contact: Kim Spurr, (919) 962-4093, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it |
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