Plant Molecular Biology Reporter 21: 7-8, March 2003 2003 International Society for Plant Molecular Biology. Printed in Canada. Appointments and Awards 2003 Kumho Science International Award in Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Professor Xing Wang Deng is the 2003 Kumho Awardee. The Kumho Cultural Foundation of Korea (beginning in 2000) annually presents the Kumho Award, a prize of US $30,000, for meritorious research in plant molecular biology and biotechnology. The prize is for the recipient's personal use. The recipient(s) is flown to Korea, at Kumho Foundation expense, to attend the award ceremony and to deliver an award lecture at the Kumho Life Science Laboratory (KLESL) in Kwagju, Korea. The ISPMB, by means of a specially appointed committee, chooses the award recipients. ISPMB Kumho Award to Dr. Xing Wang Deng, Yale University, is in recognition of his ground-breaking work on the role of protein turnover in plant signalling pathways (both light and auxin) and for the discovery of the COP9 signalosome and elucidation of many of its functions and constituents. Professor Deng received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Beijing University, and his Ph.D. in Molecular and Physiological Plant Biology from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biol- ogy and the Director of the Peking-Yale Joint Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agribiotechnology. Dr. Deng's laboratory applied a combinatorial approach to dissect the signalling process responsible for regulation of development. His laboratory uses two model systems: the light control of Arabidopsis seedling development and a conserved cellular pathway in mammals. An important observation from Dr. Deng's work is that the regulatory components involved in light regulation of Arabidopsis development are highly conserved in animals, including humans. Thus, these regulatory proteins are likely to be of fundamental importance in cell signalling, although their role in animal systems is unknown.

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Plant Molecular Biology Reporter 21: 7-8, March 2003 �9 2003 International Society for Plant Molecular Biology. Printed in Canada.

Appointments and Awards

2003 Kumho Science International Award in Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

Professor Xing Wang Deng is the 2003 Kumho Awardee. The Kumho Cultural Foundation of Korea (beginning in 2000) annually presents the Kumho Award, a prize of US $30,000, for meritorious research in plant molecular biology and biotechnology. The prize is for the recipient's personal use. The recipient(s) is flown to Korea, at Kumho Foundation expense, to attend the award ceremony and to deliver an award lecture at the Kumho Life Science Laboratory (KLESL) in Kwagju, Korea. The ISPMB, by means of a specially appointed committee, chooses the award recipients.

ISPMB Kumho Award to Dr. Xing Wang Deng, Yale University, is in recognition of his ground-breaking work on the role of protein turnover in plant signalling pathways (both light and auxin) and for the discovery of the COP9 signalosome and elucidation of many of its functions and constituents. Professor Deng received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Beijing University, and his Ph.D. in Molecular and Physiological Plant Biology from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biol- ogy and the Director of the Peking-Yale Joint Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agribiotechnology.

Dr. Deng's laboratory applied a combinatorial approach to dissect the signalling process responsible for regulation of development. His laboratory uses two model systems: the light control of Arabidopsis seedling development and a conserved cellular pathway in mammals. An important observation from Dr. Deng's work is that the regulatory components involved in light regulation of Arabidopsis development are highly conserved in animals, including humans. Thus, these regulatory proteins are likely to be of fundamental importance in cell signalling, although their role in animal systems is unknown.