Faculty Focus: Tom Guilfoyle and Gretchen Hagen
Research team receives Charles Reid Barnes Life Membership Award from the American Society of Plant Biologists
Two biochemistry faculty members have received awards for their research from the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB). They will be presented with the awards at the society’s annual meeting in Honolulu this July.
Thomas Guilfoyle, professor, and his long-time research partner and wife, Gretchen Hagen, research professor, received the Charles Reid Barnes Life Membership Award. The award, which recognizes meritorious work in the field of plant biology by an individual who is at least 60 years old, was given to Guilfoyle and Hagen for their pioneering work on how auxin, a hormone, controls gene transcription and expression in plants. This is the first time the award has been bestowed to a research team.
Guilfoyle and Hagen are the second and third biochemistry faculty members to receive the Charles Reid Barnes Life Membership Award. Douglas Randall received the award in 2006 and Guilfoyle was previously named a Fellow by the ASPB in 2007.
The ASPB is the major scientific society in plant biology, and its annual meeting draws about 1,500 of the nation’s plant biologists and students.