DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS IN PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY
The Plant Biological Sciences graduate program at the University of
Minnesota will award USDA National Needs Fellowships for doctoral students
interested in Plant Biotechnology. The Fellowship awards provide an annual
stipend of $17,000 for 3 years plus tuition waiver. An additional 2 years
of support will be available from the graduate program. Applicants must be
US citizens or US nationals and have an interest in training and a career
in some aspect of plant biotechnology. Completed applications must be
received by January 15, 1996.
To obtain application forms and additional information please
contact: Plant Biological Sciences Program Secretary
University of Minnesota
220 Bioscience Center
1445 Gortner Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108-1095
612-625-4222
email: krogh001 at maroon.tc.umn.edu
Participating faculty and major research interests:
Judith Berman - Structure and functional role of telomeres
in yeast and plants
Robert Brambl - Biochemistry and molecular biology of
mitochondrial development and heat shock
protein expression
William Bushnell - Genetic and molecular characterization of
cereal rusts
Anath Das - Molecular mechanisms of DNA transfer from
Agrobacterium tumefaciens to plants
John Doebley - Molecular evolution of maize and its
distinguishing morphological traits
Stephen Gantt - Molecular biology of nitrogen fixation and
plastid ribosomal proteins and chaperonins
Burle Gengenbach - Molecular genetics and transformation to
modify amino acid and lipid synthesis
John Gronwald - Biochemistry and molecular biology of
herbicide resistance mechanisms and
metabolic pathways
Wesley Hackett - Physiology and molecular biology of
juvenility/maturity phase shifts
Robert Jones - Role of phytohormones and heat stress in
cereal endosperm development
David Marks - Developmental and molecular mechanisms of
cellular differentiation
Georgiana May - Molecular characterization, evolution and
population genetics of fungal mating type
genes
Neil Olszewski - Molecular studies of Commelina yellow
mottle virus and gibberellin signal
transduction
Ronald Phillips - Molecular cytogenetics, genome mapping
and tissue-culture induced genetic
changes
Howard Rines - Transformation and tissue culture in
cereals, gene mapping and transfer in oat x
corn crosses
Irwin Rubenstein - Molecular characteristics of expression
and organization of the zein multigene
family
Carolyn Silflow - Molecular genetics of Chlamydomonas and
tubulin gene families in plants
D. Peter Snustad - Developmental regulation of tubulin gene
expression
Alan Smith - Gene expression specific to flower and
fruit development
David Somers - Molecular genetics and transformation for
modification of crop plants
Carroll Vance - Developmental and molecular biology of
nitrogen assimilation in legumes
Sue Wick - Structure and regulation of plant
cytoskeleton development
Burle Gengenbach
University of Minnesota
Dept. Agronomy & Plant Genetics
1991 Buford Circle
St. Paul, MN 55108-6026
612-625-6282; FAX 612-625-1268
