Physiological Section Li-COR Prize
Each year, the Physiological Section presents the Li-COR prize
to acknowledge the best presentation made by any student, regardless
of subdiscipline, at the annual meeting. The Li-COR prize is
presented annually at the BSA Banquet.
Award Recipients:
2008 Li-COR prize - Uromi Manage Goodale, Yale University, for her talk “Physiological acclimation of pioneer species to changing light environments." Her co-authors were Graeme P. Berlyn, Mark S. Ashton, and Kushan U. Tennakoon.
2007 Li-COR prize
- Jason Kilgore, of Michigan State University,
for his poster “Influence
of cold tolerance on upper elevation range limits in isolated
mountain islands Ponderosae" His co-author was Frank
W. Telewski.
2006 Li-COR prize - Erika Sudderth, for her talk “Physiological performance of C3, C4, and intermediate Flaveria species in the Tehuaca?Ln Valley of Mexico." Her co-author was
Noel M. Holbrook.
2005 Li-COR prize - Claudia Paredes López, Instituto
de Ecología
For her talk “Is
there predawn disequilibrium between plant and soil water potentials in the
mangrove Laguncularia racemosa?" Her co-author was
Jorge Lopez-Portillo.
2004 Li-COR prize
Daniel
Johnson , Wake Forest
For his talk “Chlorophyll florescence
in cotyledons and primary needles of a high-altitude confier."
His co-authors were Thomas Vogelman and William Smith.
Katherine McCullough, University of Utah
For her talk "Do plants comply with Murray's
Law?" Her co-author was John S. Sperry.
2001 Li-COR prize - Tara Lin Greaver, University of Miami
For her paper "The effects of reflected
light on the anatomy and photosynthesis of Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.)
R. BR. (Convolvulaceae), a tropical sand dune vine."
2000 Li-COR prize - Suneetha
Alokam, University of Calgary
For the talk co-authored with Chandanda Chinnappa and David
Reid entitled, "Red/Far red
light-mediated shade avoidance stem elongation response and anthocyanin accumulation
in alpine and prairie ecotypes of Stellaria longipes."
1998 Li-COR prize - Stephen
Witzig, Salisbury State University
For his talk entitled "A microbial symbiont
used to alter the nutritional quality of plants."
Tissue Culture Prize - Katie A. Gustavsen, University of Delaware
For her paper entitled "Genetic transformation
of Atriplex triangularis (seaside greens) using Agrobacterium
tumefaciens and the p35 GUSint Ti plasmid."
1997 Li-COR prize - Jaren I. Madden, University of Connecticut, Storrs
For her talk with Cynthia S. Jones entitled "Characterization
of somatic embryogenesis response of Pelagonium species to exogenous
cytokinens."
1996 Li-COR prize - Edward
M. Doran
For his paper with Rose Cattolico entitled "Photoregulation
of chloroplast gene expression in Heterosigma carterae."
1994 Li-COR Prize - Michael
R. Bynum, University of Wyoming, Laramie
For his paper entitled, "Rapid and reversible
floral movements in artic gentians: Benefits for male and female fitness in an
alpine environment."
1991 DNA Plant Technology, Inc. Prize
- Xianggan Li
For the paper "Culture and salt tolerance
of protoplasts from the halophyte Sporobolus virginicus."
1983 Best Student Paper - Mr. Randy D. Allen, Texas A & M
For his his paper entitled "Effects of
metabolic inhibitors and growth regulators on storage protein mobilization in
sunflower cotyledons."
1981 - Pete O. Council,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
For his paper entitled, "The control
of growth in carrot cell suspension cultures."
1979 - David D. Biesboer,
Indiana University
For his paper entitled "Production of
sterols by callus cultures of Euphorbia tirucalli L."
1977 - S. G. Pallardy
For his papers entitled, "Early root and
shoot growth of rooted tip cuttings of four Populus clones," and
"Leaf resistance and leaf water potential of four Populus clones."
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