Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
Recipients for 2001

Eight students were awarded 2001 American Society of Plant Biologists Undergraduate Research Fellowships to conduct independent investigations with ASPB mentors during the summer of 2001:

	Alison Eggert, Purdue University, Department of Agronomy, West Lafayette, IN (Dr. Daniel Szymanski, mentor).  "Localization and Identification of the DIS1 Gene in Arabidopsis."
	Abbie Grosselink, Calvin College, Department of Biology, Grand Rapids, MI (Dr. David Koetje, mentor). "Protease Activity of jrp1 in Response to Methyl Jasmonate."
	Nathaniel Jeanson, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Department of Biological Sciences, Parkside, WI (Dr. David Higgs, mentor).  "Chloroplast mRNA Stability and Translation."
	Del Lucent, Wilkes University, Department of Biology, Wilkes-Barre, PA (Dr. William Terzaghi, mentor).  "The effect of Mitochondrial Membrane Lipid Composition on Respiration in Arabidopsis."
	Amy Rettler, University of Wisconsin, Department of Plant Pathology, Madison, WI (Dr. Andrew Bent, mentor).  "Elucidating the Role of HR and SA-, JA- and Ethylene-Mediated Disease Resistance through dnd Mutants."
	Stephen Schilling, Dartmouth College, Department of Biological Sciences, Hanover, NH (Dr. C. Robertson McClung, mentor).  "Characterization and Mapping of two Photoperception Mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana."
	Illeana Silva, Rice University, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Houston, TX (Dr. Bonnie Bartel, mentor).  "Genetic Analysis of IBA Metabolism in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana."
	John Sneddon, University of Nebraska, Department of Biochemistry, Lincoln, NE (Dr. Lori Allison, mentor).  "The Expression of Nuclear-Encoded Maize Sigma Factors 2a and 6 in Tobacco Plastids."

Six students received Honorable Mention:

Laura Black, University of Massachusetts Department of Biology, Boston, MA (Dr. Adán Colón-Carmona).  "Identifying Photoreceptors Responsible for Cell Division Activation in Arabidopsis thaliana."

Jeffrey Butler, Virginia Tech Department of Biochemistry, Blacksburg, VA (Dr. Glenda Gillaspy, mentor).  "Substrate Specificity of Putative At5PTase in Arabidopsis thaliana."

Merici Evans, Edgewood College, Department of Natural Science, Madison, WI (Dr. Sharon Thoma, mentor).  "Cloning and Sequencing of the Polyphenol Oxidase Gene(s) in Alfalfa."

Tracey Millard, Michigan State University MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratories, East Lansing, MI (Dr. Pam Green, mentor).  "Investigating the Biological Role of RNS1 in Arabidopsis thaliana."

Kristy Wilson, University of South Dakota Department of Biology, Vermillion, SD (Dr. Zoran Ristic, mentor).  "Chloroplast protein synthesis elongation factor and Heat Tolerance in a Maize EF-Tu Mutant."

Jeffrey Wright, California State University Department of Biological Sciences, Long Beach, CA (Dr. Judy Brusslan, mentor).  "Identification of the cch2 Gene Via TAIL-PCR."