Faculty Honors and Awards and Seminar Series Speakers

<TITLE>Faculty Honors and Awards and Seminar Series
Speakers</TITLE>

<H2>II. Institutional Research Environment</H2>
          <H4> Faculty Honors and Awards</H4>

<UL>Mitchell-Olds, T. Sloan Foundation Fellowship in Molecular
Evolution. 1993 - 1994. </UL>

<UL>Raboy, V. 1994. USDA-ARS Northern Plains Area Early Career
Achievement Award, $2,500, "For the isolation of low phytic acid
mutants and the methods to use these mutants in the development
of low phytic acid crops".</UL>

<UL>Raboy, V. 1995. USDA-ARS Team Achievment Award to the Raboy
Lab, "For the Discovery and Development of low phytic acid
Mutants in Corn and Barley". </UL>

<H4> EPSCoR Plant Molecular Biology and Genetics Seminar Series
Speakers</H4>

<UL>Sheila McCormick, USDA Plant Gene Expression Lab. Molecular
regulation of pollen development.</UL>

<UL>William Peterson, U. Texas. Cytochrome P-450: What Aristotle
taught us about this superfamily of proteins.</UL>

<UL>Bikram Gill, Kansas State. Molecular and cytogenetic analysis
of the wheat genome.</UL>

<UL>Andy Paterson, Texas A&M. Marking genes in cotton and tomato. 
Barbara Mazur. Dupont. Molecular based improvements in crop
quality traits.</UL>
 
<UL>Yuechan Wan, USDA Plant Gene Exression Lab. Development and
use of efficient transformation systems for barley and maize
improvemant.</UL>

<UL>Carol Stiff. Wash. State. Development of transformation
systems for crop sp.</UL>

<UL>Rongda Qu, Scripps Research Inst. Efficient biolistic rice
transformation. </UL>

<UL>Maurice Moloney, U. Calgary. Molecular farming in Canola
(Brassica napus): The use of oleosins as vehicles for high value
protein production in seeds.</UL>

<UL>Matthew Kramer, Calgene. The Flavr-Savr tomato: bringing a
transgenic product to market.</UL>

<UL>Drake Stenger, N. Illinois U. Molecular genetics of beet
curly top virus strain diversity and pathogenicity.</UL>

<UL>Mark Young, Purdue. Barley yellow dwarf virus: basic studies
and applied results. </UL>

<UL>Steve Demler, Michigan State. A case study in plant virus
adaptation: pea enation mosaic virus.</UL>

<UL>Keith Perry, Cornell. Mapping determinants in cucumber mosaic
virus for aphid transmission and replicase-mediated transgenic
plant virus resistance. </UL>

<UL>Phil Anderson, U. Wisconsin. mRNA surveillance by the C.
elegans SMG genes. </UL>

<UL>Anne Desjardins, USDA-ARS, Peoria. Reduced virulence of a
deoxynivalenol-deficient mutant of Fusarium graminearum in
field-grown wheat. </UL>

<UL>Ina Hoeschele. Virginia Polytechnical Inst. QTL mapping
experiments in cattle-design and analysis.</UL>

<UL>Carl Douglas, U. British Columbia. Regulation of
phenylpropanoid natural product biosynthesis in plants.</UL>

<UL>James Colbert. Iowa State U. Phytochrome A mRNA
turnover.</UL> 

<UL>Stewart Gray, Cornell U. Luteovirus-vector interactions.</UL>
<UL> Carol Vance. U. Minnesota. Biochemical and molecular
dissection of N-metabolism in alfalfa.</UL>

<UL>Earl Wernsman, North Carolina State U. Anther culture induced
genetic variation.</UL>

<UL>Ilya Raskin, Rutgers U. Phytoremediation.</UL>