Melanson Wins 2014 C. W. Edgerton Award - 12/15/2014
Rebecca A. Melanson, Ph. D. candidate, in the Department of Plant Pathology & Crop Physiology at Louisiana State University and the LSU AgCenter, recently won the prestigious C. W. Edgerton Award.
12/15/2014 - Rebecca A. Melanson, Ph. D. candidate, in the Department of Plant Pathology
& Crop Physiology at Louisiana State University and the LSU AgCenter, recently won
the prestigious C. W. Edgerton Award. She was nominated by her advisor, Dr. Jong Hyun
Ham, Associate Professor. She won this award for her outstanding academic and professional
achievements, especially her significant contributions toward our understanding of
bacterial regulatory mechanisms. She identified ntpR, a new regulatory gene of major
virulence factors, from the plant pathogenic bacterium Burkholderia glumae and characterized
its global regulatory function in bacterial signaling and pathogenesis.
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