04/23/2009

2009 OARDC Krauss Award Goes to OSU Plant Pathology Grad

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Miguel Vega-Sánchez, a 2008 doctoral graduate of Ohio State University’s Department of Plant Pathology, has earned the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center’s (OARDC) 2009 William E. Krauss Director’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Research.

He was recognized for his paper “SPIN1, a K Homology Domain Protein Negatively Regulated and Ubiquitinated by the E3 Ubiquitin Ligase SPL11, Is Involved in Flowering Time Control in Rice,” which appeared in the journal The Plant Cell in June 2008.

“It is significant to note,” one of his nominators wrote, “that The Plant Cell has the highest impact factor of primary research journals in plant biology and is regarded as the most prestigious journal for publication of molecular plant research.”

The award — $1,000 and a framed copy of the winning paper — honors outstanding dissertation research by an OARDC-supported graduate student. It was given today (April 23) at OARDC’s Annual Research Conference in Columbus.

Vega-Sánchez is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Joint BioEnergy Institute in Berkeley, Calif.

Guo-Liang Wang, a professor in the Department of Plant Pathology, was his advisor.

OARDC (www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/) is the research arm of Ohio State’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences and is the largest university agbioscience research center in the nation.

Writer:

Kurt Knebusch
knebusch.1@osu.edu
330-263-3776

Source:

Steve Slack, OARDC Director
oardc@osu.edu
330-263-3701