November 1, 2010: Washington University iGEM Team – heading off to MIT for the competition.
July 31, 2010: Ashley receives her ASPB-Pioneer HiBred Graduate Fellowship Award at the ASPB Annual Meeting in Montreal from Society President Prof. Tuan-hua (David) Ho.
July 19, 2010: Congratulations to Sheri for receiving an NIH-MARC uSTAR Fellowship
June 24-28, 2010: Soon and Geoff present talks at the 2nd Banff Conference on Plant Metabolism and congratulations to Soon who received a travel grant for the meeting.
June 3-5, 2010: Joe visits Academia Sinica and National Taiwan University. Thanks to Paul Verslues for hosting.
December 2-4, 2009: Joe presents and is a session chair at the 6th International Conference on Phytotechnologies held in St. Louis.
August 18, 2009: Alex Markov was selected to receive the “Pfizer Award for Excellence in Research” for his STARS program paper.
Leadership in Science Public Service Award in Honolulu.
June 25-27, 2009: The 2009 Phoenix Symposium on Protein Complexes in Signaling and Development Symposium in Glasgow
Summer 2009: The Lab … missing Naveen and Leia
March 2009: Joe accepted to the Fulbright Specialist Program.
February 1-6, 2009: Congratulations to Naveen, a visiting scientist from the National Institute for Plant Genome Research in New Delhi, India, who received a Travel Award to the Gordon Research Conference on Plant Lipids, in Galveston, TX.
February 2009: Congratulations to Matt and Amy who received travel awards to attend the ASPB meeting in Honolulu, HI. Matt will present his work on cyanoalanine synthase and Amy her work on engineering bioplastics production.
November 15, 2008: Becky’s Farewell Party
October 14, 2008: Joe presents at the “25 Years of Plant Biology at the Salk Institute” Symposium.
Summer 2008: The Lab …
July 1, 2008: Joe appointed as an Assistant Professor of Biology at Washington University.
June 28, 2008: Amy receives a travel award to present her ASPB-SURF fellowship research on phenylalanine ammonia lyase at the ASPB meeting in Merida, Mexico.
April 2008: Joe joins the Editorial Board of The Journal of Biological Chemistry.
March 18, 2008: Matt was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship by the American Society of Plant Biologists.
February 8, 2008: St. Louis Post-Dispatch publishes “Company Turns to Danforth Plant Center to Develop a Green Plastic” on the collaboration between the Danforth Center and Metabolix that is funded by the Missouri Life Sciences Trust Fund.
January 12-16, 2008: Joe was a speaker at the XVI Plant and Animal Genome Conference in San Diego.
September 29, 2007: Kumaran was a speaker at the 27th Midwest Enzyme Chemistry Conference in Chicago, where he presented his work on protein-protein interactions in plant cysteine biosynthesis.
July 13-15, 2007: Joe presents at the 2007 Plant Metabolic Engineering Gordon Conference.
July 7-11, 2007: Joe is a speaker at the 2007 Plant Biology & Botany Joint Congress in Chicago.
April 11, 2007: Amy was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship by the American Society of Plant Biologists.
March 29-April 2, 2007: First Huazhong Agricultural University-Donald Danforth Plant Science Center Bilateral Symposium on Crop Functional Genomics in Wuhan, China.
February 1, 2007: Kumaran received an ASBMB Postdoctoral Travel Award and Kiani an ASBMB Undergraduate Travel Award to attend the 2007 Experimental Biology Meeting in Washington, DC.
October 5-7, 2006: Joe is a keynote speaker at the Sulfur-Containing Defense Compounds: Pivotal Players in Plant Stress Response Conference in Heidelberg, Germany.
July 16, 2006: St. Louis Post-Dispatch article “Students Have Summer Down to a Science” on the Pfizer-Solutia STARS Program.
March 24, 2006: Kiani was awarded an American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund SUMR Fellowship for research during the summer of 2006.
October 8, 2005: Joe is an invited speaker at the 25th Midwest Enzyme Chemistry Conference.
July 10-15, 2005: Joe presents at the 2005 Plant Metabolic Engineering Gordon Research Conference.
Summer 2005: The Lab and Honorary Members from Divergence
April 20-22, 2005: Joe is a speaker at the 3rd International Phytotechnologies Conference in Atlanta, GA.
March 19, 2005: Congratulations to Kiani Arkus for the Best Undergraduate Presentation Award at the American Society of Plant Biology Midwest Section Meeting.
March 14, 2004: St. Louis Post-Dispatch article “From Green to Clean” on the Jez and Smith labs.
October 2002: The Jez lab opens at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center.