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Blatt Awarded Guggenheim Fellow

	Michael Blatt

ASPB member Michael R. Blatt has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellow for 2006. He holds the endowed Regius Chair of Botany and is head of plant sciences at the University of Glasgow. He is one of 187 recipients selected from nearly 3,000 applicants. His area of expertise is the roles and means of membrane transport of proteins in cellular homeostasis as well as plant cell signaling and ion channel structure.

Professor Blatt plans to spend several months of the fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda.

The fellowships are given to professionals in the natural and social sciences, humanities, and creative arts as an incentive to pursue unrestricted research. A total of $7.5 million was awarded this year.