2014 MBG Awards Summary

2013-14 Awards Ceremony May 20, 2014
Opening comments from Eric Alani-Chair
Introduce New Employees
Chun Han-Weill
Ruth Ley
NONE
Retirement
Peter Hinkle June 30th, 2014-over 40 years at Cornell University
Name
Award to be Received-Staff
Lin Lin
Casey Moore
Pam Gillow
Robin Lampman
Ross Resnick
Janis Werner
Steve Sparling
10 years of service
15 years of service
15 years of service
25 years of service
30 years of service
30 years of service
Calvo Staff Award
Name
Ken Kemphues
Linda Nicholson
Award to be Received-Faculty
2014 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities
Estevan Fuertes Award for Outstanding Faculty Partner
Ruth Ley
International Society for Microbial Ecology(ISME) Young Investigator Award
Kelly Liu
Named by a Cornell Merrill Presidential Scholar-Devin McMahon as a Cornell
Faculty member who most significantly contributed to her Cornell Experience
Introduce New Faculty
Name
Award to be Received-Graduate Students
Eric Strobel-Roberts
Greg Booth-Lis
Joel Brown-Garcia
Carolyn Fisher-Nicholson
CALS Outstanding Teaching Award
CALS Outstanding Teaching Award
CALS Outstanding Teaching Award-OUB
Rita & Joe Calvo Teaching Award
Jen Apger-McGlaughon-Wolfner
Rita & Joe Calvo Teaching Award
Hojoong Kwak-"Precise maps of RNA polymerase reveal
how promoters direct initiation and pausing"
Science 339:950 (2013)
Prior Lis Lab Graduate student
Chenxi Tian-Tian, C., Shi, H., Xiong, S., Hu, F., Xiong, W.
and Liu, J. (2013) The neogenin/DCC homolog UNC-40
promotes BMP signaling via the RGM
protein DRAG-1 in C. elegans. Development 140: 40704080. Epub 2013 Sept 4. PMCID:
Chen Cheng-Pch2 is a hexameric ring ATPase that
remodels the chromosome axis protein Hop1
Jacob P. Tome-Lis
Najla Al-Sweel-Alani
Ebere Joseph-Nicholson
Angelina Noriega-Brown
Tao Sun
LPS Award-BMCB Include titles of papers
LPS Award-GGD Include titles of papers
Wellnitz Award(1st authored paper last year) Include Titles
George P. Hess Travel Award-$500
The Harry and Samuel Mann Outstanding Graduate Student Award-$20,000
Douglas Award
Douglas Award
Plant Science Senior Graduate Student Award.This is an annual award
established to honor outstanding senior graduate students studying in the
Plant Sciences at Cornell University. Students are selected based on their
academic, research, teaching and achievements as well as on their potential to
continue an outstanding career in the Plant Sciences. Tim West-Alani
Awarded a supplement to Alani NIH grant
Carolyn Jablonowski-Smolka
Provost Diversity Fellowship
Alise Muok-(MBCB) & Tiffany St. Bernard (GGD)
NSF Predoc Fellowship
Maria Liberti(joining Locasale lab) & Rebecca
Simpson(joining Feigenson lab)-1st year students
Name
Sara Di Rienzi-Ley
Angela Poole-Ley
Tim Connallon-Clark
Julien Ayroles-Clark
NSF Predoc Fellowship honorable mention
Myat Lin-Hanson
Simone White-Wolfner
Award to be Received-Postdocs
Life Sciences Foundation Research Fellowship
3CPG Fellowship
Assistant Professorship at Monash University in Australia
Assistant Professor at Princeton University in NJ
EMBO travel Award for SF-EMBO Conference on Biology of Plastids-Towards a
Blueprint for Synthetic Organelles in Poland in June 2014
Diversity supplement to Wolfner & Clark grant
Name
Award to be Received-Undergraduates
Hannah De Jong-Ley Lab
Academic excellence in double major award from CALS
Cameron McConkey-Ley Lab
Sandy Mattei-Wolfner lab
2 research awards from CALS, 1 from the Dextra Undergraduate Research
Endowment and 1 from the CU Agricultural Experiment Station
NSF Grad Fellowship for next year