Awards Presented at the XIXth International Congress on
Sexual Plant Reproduction
World Congress Center, Budapest, Hungary - July 11-15, 2006
IASPRR Medals
Young Scientist Presentation Awards:
The board decided to grant three awards at this congress to junior scientists. One award was given for the best presentation and two awards for the best posters. The awards were presented on behalf of the award committee by President Anna Koltunow, 14 July 2006.
H.F. Linskens Award for Best Presentation:
- Mihaela-Luiza Marton, Biocenter Klein Flottbek, Developmental Biology and Biotechnology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, for her presentation: "ZmEA1 as a signalling molecule required for micropylar pollen tube guidance in maize and discovery of novel EA1-box protein genes" co-author Thomas Dresselhaus
Best Posters: (alphabetical)
- Marina Gebert, Biocenter Klein Flottbek, Developmental Biology and Biotechnology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, for her poster "The gametophyte-specific armadillo protein AtARO1 and its role in double fertilization," co-authors Thomas Dresselhaus and Stefanie Sprunck
- Tomokazu Kawashima, Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, for his poster: "Cis-reguatory regions responsible for suspensor-specific transcription," co-authors Xing-Jun Wang, Yuping Bi, Koen Weterings, and Robert B. Goldberg