Presidential Young Investigator Award

总统青年研究员奖提供了一般 拉斯特博士研究基因机制的研究基金 植物如何调节氨基酸 生物合成响应环境和发展线索。 他的这些研究的模型系统是色氨酸的生物合成 拟南芥中的信号转导途径。 他还希望利用他的一些 自己的发现，以开发遗传学的改进方法， 操纵这种生物。

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.