Agrisera Awards during 46th Annual Midwest/Southeast photosynthesis Meeting

Our warmest congratulations to the awardees of the 46th Annual Midwest/Southeast Photosynthesis Conference (virtual meeting), who received the Agrisera Awards for:

Outstanding Poster Presentation (Postdoctoral Fellow Awardee)
Dr. Maria Santos-Merino, Michigan State University.
Poster title: "Testing the capacity for heterologous metabolic sinks to replace photoprotective mechnisms in cyanobacteria".

Outstanding Poster Presentation (Graduate Student Awardees)
Anton Avramov, Oklahoma State University  (Dr. Burnap’s Lab).
Poster title: "The role of Ca2+and protein scaffolding in the formation of nature's water oxidazing compex".
Aaditya Prabhu (undergraduate student), Purdue University,
Poster title: "Structure requirement for plastoquinione transfer: transient PSII reaction center-cy".

Outstanding Poster Presentation (Undergraduate Student Awardee)
Sofia Dvinskikh, Rutgers University.
Poster title: "Can oxygenic photosynthesis function without manganese in vivo? Cobalt replacement in the water-oxidizing comples of photosystem II".

All awardees will receive the book: Photosynthesis – Solar Energy for Life by By Dr. Dmitry Shevela, Prof. Lars Olof Björn, Prof. Govindjee (2019)