MGR Honorable Mention: Leon Wooten

奈斯勒博士正在研究转基因烟草植物中罂粟的主要乳胶蛋白，以便提供有关如何将杂交蛋白专门针对细胞隔间的信息。罂粟乳汁管细胞类型具有合成药用生物碱的能力，因此了解其蛋白靶向机制将有助于阐明植物代谢中次生产物的调控。伍滕先生计划学习设计基因结构并将其转移到载体上。他还将开发用嵌合基因构建转化植物的技术，并使用免疫细胞化学技术在转基因植物中定位嵌合蛋白。

Dr. Nessler is working on the major latex protein of opium poppy in transgenic tobacco plants in order to provide information as to how hybrid proteins can be specifically targeted to cellular compartments. The poppy laticifer cell type has the ability to synthesize medicinally important alkaloids, therefore understanding the protein targeting mechanism will help to elucidate the regulation of secondary products in plant metabolism. Mr. Wooten plans to learn to engineer gene constructs and to transfer them to vectors. He will, also develop techniques for transforming plants with chimeric gene constructs and use immunocytochemical techniques to localize chimeric proteins in transgenic plants.