ROCKVILLE, MD — Several distinguished plant scientists – most of them members of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) – have been elected as members or foreign associates of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Five plant scientists were elected to this year's (NAS) class:
New members
- Ian Baldwin – Director, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
- Xuemei Chen – Professor, University of California, Riverside; and Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Investigator
- Xing-Wang Deng – Daniel C. Eaton Chair of Plant Biology, Yale University
- Jorge Dubcovsky – Professor, University of California, Davis; and Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Investigator
Foreign Associate
- Graham Farquhar – Professor , Group Leader, and Distinguished Professor of Environmental Biology, Research School of Biological Science, Australian National University
These plant biologists are among the 84 new members and 21 foreign associates just elected. There are now 2,179 active NAS members and 437 foreign associates.
ASPB is a professional scientific society, headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, devoted to the advancement of the plant sciences worldwide. With a membership of some 4500 plant scientists from throughout the United States and more than 50 other nations, the Society publishes two of the most widely cited plant science journals: The Plant Cell and Plant Physiology. For more information about ASPB, please visit http://www.aspb.org/. Also follow ASPB on Facebook at facebook.com/myASPB and on Twitter @ASPB.