Martin Gibbs Medal

MARTIN GIBBS MEDAL

2023 – Xuemei Chen – for pioneering contributions to plant RNA biogenesis, modification and metabolism, and to the regulation, mode of action and mobility of microRNAs (miRNAs).

2021 – Jeff Dangl – for outstanding contributions to our understanding of how plants manage interactions with both pathogenic and mutualistic microorganisms, leading to new paradigms across biology.

2019 – Rob Martienssen – for groundbreaking research on the role of small RNAs in chromatin and DNA modifications, heterochromatin formation, transposable element control, and developmental processes.

2017 – Ralph Bock – for groundbreaking research on horizontal gene transfer and experimental evolution.

2015 – Craig Pikaard – for seminal work and important discoveries in the fields of nucleolar dominance, gene silencing, and the role and function of the atypical polymerases IV and V.

2013 – Jen Sheen – for seminal and innovative contributions to our understanding of how plants integrate responses to numerous signals to optimize organism function in an ever-changing environment.

2011 – Steve A. Kay – for his research on biological clocks in both plants and animals.

2009 –John B. Ohlrogge – for his research focused on understanding fatty acid metabolism in plant cells

2007 – Richard A. Jorgensen – for his pioneering work leading to the discovery of RNA interference (RNAi)

2005 – Joseph Ecker – for his seminal contributions in the plant hormone ethylene and genomics.

2003 – June Nasrallah – for her outstanding research in elucidating the molecular basis of self-incompatibility.

2001 Ken Feldmann is recognized for his enormous impact on plant physiology, as well as plant developmental biology and plant genetics.

1999 Steven D. Tanksley for pioneering advances that have served to establish new directions of investigation in the plant sciences.

1997 William J. Lucas for contributing significantly in the general area of transport in plants, both long distance and at the level of the membrane.

1995 Elliot Meyerowitz for making several original contributions that have established new directions of investigation in the plant sciences.

1993 Christopher R. Somerville for development of Arabidopsis thaliana as a genetic system for the study of plant functions.