Louise Comas

Project title: Patterns in the evolution of plant root morphology

Award: Postdoctoral Training Grant

Host P.I.: Dr. Hilary Callahan, Barnard College

 

Yunjing Wang

Project title:The Molecular Basis of Chasmogamy and Cleistogamy in Viola pubescens (Violaceae)

Award: Postdoctoral Training Grant

Host P.I.: Dr. Eric Stockinger, Ohio State University

 

Dr. Barbara Ambrose

Project title: MIKC* MADS-box Genes in Land Plant Development and Evolution

Award: Assistant Professor Training Grant

Host P.I.: Dr. Amy Litt, New York Botanical Garden
               Dr. Michael Purugganan, New York University

 

Rob Baker

Project title: Shoot Architecture: Evolutionary Process and Pattern in Mimulus guttatus

Award: Graduate Student Training Grant

Host P.I.: Lena Hileman, University of Kansas

 

Roel Sterken

Project title: Assessing the evolutionary molecular dynamics of the Arabidopsis thaliana core cell cycle genes and their implications on plant development

Award: Postdoctoral Training Grant

Host P.I.: Dr. Michael Purugganan, University of California, Davis

 

Tom Viaene

Project title: Key Regulators of 'Basal Asterid' Floral Characters

Award: Graduate Student Training Grant

Host P.I.: Dr. Vivian Irish, Yale University

 

Eduardo Flores

 

Award: Undergraduate Student Training Grant

Host P.I.: Dr. John Bowman, Monash University

 

Andreina Fuentes Carvajal

Project title: The Evolution of Cauliflory

Award: Graduate Student Training Grant

Host P.I.: Dr. Amy Litt , The New York Botanical Garden

 

David Rasmussen

Project title: Investigating the roles of the APETALA3 and PISTILATTA Gene Lineages in Petal Evolution

Award: Undergraduate Training Grant, $3,000

Host P.I.: Dr. Elena Kramer, Harvard University

 

Melissa Smith

Project title: Phenotypic Characterization and Identification of Regulatory Gene Mutations Involved in Maize Leaf Development

Award: Undergraduate Training Grant, $3,000

Host P.I.: Dr. Sarah Hake, University of Californiat, Berkeley