Richard Amasino
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Richard Amasino is a professor of biochemistry and genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He got his bachelor's degree in biology at Pennsylvania State University. He went on to receive his PhD in biochemistry at Indiana University in 1982 and did post doctoral research at the University of Washington.[1] Amasino's research focuses on plants and how plants know when to flower.
Research
Amasino's research is to determine how plants know when to flower after winter is over.[1] Amasino discovered that biennials will only flower after a cold winter due to a gene called FLC.[2]
Honors and awards
- 2009 Elected Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists
- 2008 Hildale Professorship
- 2006 U.S. National Academy of Sciences
- 2006 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Teaching Professor
- 2003 Wisconsin Distinguished Professor Biochemistry, UW-Madison
- 1989-1994 Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation
- 1986 McKnight Foundation Individual Research Award in Plant Biology
