Presidential Young Investigator Award

总统青年研究人员奖为Last博士研究植物基因调节机制以及植物如何调节氨基酸生物合成以响应环境和发育线索提供一般研究资金。他的这些研究的模型系统是拟南芥中色氨酸的生物合成途径。他还希望利用自己的一些发现来开发改进的方法来操纵这种有机体的基因。

This Presidential Young Investigator Award provides general research funds for Dr. Last's studies of mechanisms of gene regulation in plants and how plants regulate amino acid biosynthesis in response to environmental and developmental cues. His model system for these studies is the tryptophan biosynthetic pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana. He also hopes to use some of his own discoveries to develop improved methods for the genetic manipulation of this organism.